华裔移民后代的22大特征 数一数：

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Your school report card had a different grading scale to your friends'.
 
You ate a LOT of delicious Chinese cooking over the years but don't know how to cook any of it because your mum never let you in the kitchen.
 
Absolutely no outside shoes were worn in the house.
 
You grew up believing there were only three career options available: doctor, lawyer and accountant.*
  • 事实: 澳大利亚的亚裔人口约有240万，约占12%，但澳大利亚20%的医生都是亚裔。

 

You never received much sympathy for your problems nor praise for your accomplishments.
中国选手得了银牌却痛哭流涕，因为感觉没得到金牌就是愧对祖国与家人。
 
而英国选手得了铜牌就乐翻天。
 
And whenever you were excited by something your parents were quick to throw some cold water over it.
 
　7。你小时候的照片中一定有一张是齐留海的发型。
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8。在你还是学生时，家长一定反对你谈恋爱。
可是一毕业，家长就会突然变了个样，惊讶地问你：“你怎么会还没有男/女朋友？！”
Thoughout your studies you weren't allowed to date, and then once you graduated your parents were suddenly all like "HOW COME YOU NO HAVE GIRL/BOYFRIEND?"
 
9。当你总算有了对象后，你最好保佑他/她不是以下2种人中的一种：
 
1。其他种族；2。艺术家。
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10。你从小就被送去学小提琴、钢琴，或二样都学。你父母会一直督促你练习，
 
可当你真的想要成为专业的音乐家时，你的父母却会吓到魂飞魄散。
When you were young you played the violin, or the piano, or both. Your parents constantly harangued you to practice, then freaked out when you floated the idea of becoming a professional musician.
 
11。你不是在学校，就是诸如Kumon一类的补习班，
再不就是在父母的中餐厅里帮忙。不知道还有谁比你更惨。
When you weren't in school you were attending coaching schools like Kumon or working at your parents' Chinese restaurant. Still not sure who had it worse.
 
12。必修课：数学、数学、数学！选修课：戏剧、体育和宗教。
Compulsory: Math, Math & Math. Voluntary: Drama, PE & Religion.
 
13。你父母学习各种最新潮科技的能力简直令人恐惧，而这只是为了能有更多的渠道联系到你。
Your parents displayed an almost scary ability to adopt every new piece of technology that came out over the years. Basically more channels to get in touch with you.
 
14。你与全球最佳、最无意识的环保人士住在一起。
 
他们将“再利用、维修和循环利用”的口号提升到了一个新的水平。
You lived with the world's best unintentional environmentalists. They took the words "reuse, repair, recycle" to a new level.
 
15。你看到你白人朋友家的冰箱里竟然放满了诸如Camembert和Brie一类的奶酪，
 
会觉得很惊异：“怎么有人吃这么臭的东西”。
 
而你的朋友在你家冰箱里发现榴莲时，想必也不会太高兴。
 
You were amazed to discover the families of your white friends had cheeses like Camembert and Brie in the fridge. Your friends were not similarly delighted to be introduced to the stink bomb in your fridge called durian.
 
16。在打包行李时，你妈妈总要插手帮忙。她总是会往里塞几条一次性内裤，
 
外加足够一个家庭吃一个月的各种食物。
Your mum always interfered with your packing. Usually armed with a pair of disposable undies and enough food to feed a family for a month.
 
17。你父母极少带你去海边玩耍，而就算去了，他们也会从头包到脚，而且对吃海鲜远比去游泳更感兴趣。
The few times your parents took you to the beach, they sweated away covered in head to toe, and were far more interested in eating seafood than swimming.
 
18。你父母爱死了叫作保鲜膜和铝箔纸的东西。
 
Your parents had a love affair with plastic wrap and tin foil.
 
19.你父母和亲戚们在家庭聚会时会毫不客气地评论你的体重。
Your parents and relatives never failed to air their opinions regarding your weight at family gatherings.
 
20.在周六的中文学校里，你总会发现有那么一两个比你年轻得多的白人小孩，
 
而且他们的中文好得甩你几条街。
Your Saturdays were spent at Chinese school where there was always a white kid or someone much younger than you whose Chinese kicked your ass.
 
21.当你第一次去中国时，你会发现，比起中国的同龄人，
 
你跟美国的俄裔、希腊裔、菲律宾裔同龄人以及其他种族的移民同龄人拥有更多的共同话题。
You went to China for the first time and realised that in many ways, you have more in common with Australia's Russian kids, Greek kids, Filipino kids and other children of migrants than you do with Chinese Chinese kids.
 
22.长大后，你才会慢慢地发现，
 
父母对你的严加管教只是他们生活在一个陌生国家的紧张情感的自然流露。
And that as you grow older you finally see their tough love approach was the natural default for nervous parents living in a strange country.
 
其实，他们做这一切，都只是为了让你拥有更稳定更成功的生活。身在异国的他们，被心目中理想的生活拒之门外，或者必须吃尽苦头才能企及。尝试着理解你的父母吧，他们也许很严格，但这一切都是爱的表现。
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