[4mand4]

Hi. I have a major Personal Interest Project to write for school and wondering if you'll participate in my survey
Please Please Please!

Gender:
Male
Female

Age:
11-14
15-18
19-25
Other _____

Nationality: __________

1) Do your parents pressure you to have a good education?
o Yes
o No

2) Why do you think pressure to succeed exists?

3) Do you think this pressure has a positive or negative effect on the socialisation (where by an individual learns the customs and norms of their culture to be accepted into society) process? Why/Why not?

4) Do you think this pressure will exist in future generations? Why/ Why not?

5) What other pressures are placed on you personally by your parents?

6) How does this pressure to succeed affect you? How does it make you feel?

Thank you

[.hidden melody.]

Hallo O: Do you still need people to fill out your survey? o-o; xD

Gender:
Male
Female

Age:
11-14
15-18
19-25
Other _____

Nationality: Taiwanese

1) Do your parents pressure you to have a good education?
o Yes
o No

2) Why do you think pressure to succeed exists?
Because they're asian. >_> LOL. Nah they just want to make sure I have a good future.

3) Do you think this pressure has a positive or negative effect on the socialization (where by an individual learns the customs and norms of their culture to be accepted into society) process? Why/Why not?
Yeah I guess since without it there's a high chance I wouldn't feel that grade point average was that important and then I'd get screwed over later on in life, and also that pressure allowed me to relate to other people who shared the same pressure which lead to friends with good influences? BD Yeah I might not have answered that completely. A little scatterbrained right now. >>;

4) Do you think this pressure will exist in future generations? Why/ Why not?
Hopefully it will. I think it will though considering that even the government is pressuring kids to do better in school too. [No Child Left Behind, for example]

5) What other pressures are placed on you personally by your parents?
Ehh.... not many, I don't think. Be nicer to my younger sibling? Haha.

6) How does this pressure to succeed affect you? How does it make you feel?
It stresses me out whenever I "fail" but it's still necessary because it forces me to do well in school? XD

[Antz]

Gender:
Female

Age:
15-18

Nationality: Australian

1) Do your parents pressure you to have a good education?
o Yes

2) Why do you think pressure to succeed exists?
Because we'd be lazy and do nothing if no one told us to do something.

3) Do you think this pressure has a positive or negative effect on the socialisation (where by an individual learns the customs and norms of their culture to be accepted into society) process? Why/Why not?
Some people don't understand why kids are pressured. For example, my non-asian friends are never pressured. My bf, for example, he thinks that Asians are so hardworking and all, but really, we're just being extremely pressured to do well. Amongst Asians, we know how it feels. Although I have some Asian friends that aren't pressured at all. T_T

4) Do you think this pressure will exist in future generations? Why/ Why not?
Nope. I know that I won't pressure my kids. Of course I'll want them to do well, so I'll help them. But I will support them. In my generation, we've been pressured so much. I've talked to my friends about it and we told ourselves that we won't pressure our kids. I reckon it will lessen in years to come.

5) What other pressures are placed on you personally by your parents?
Other than getting good grades.. I guess they always pressure me into finding a job (like right now ugh) and they always try to make me earn my own money. =_=

6) How does this pressure to succeed affect you? How does it make you feel?
It made me worse. I did so crap at school, and one of the reasons was because of the pressure to succeed.

[twinkle_l0ve]

OMG ARE YOU DOING SOCIETY AND CULTURE AS WELL???
have you done most of your secondary research????
lol for these answers, im just going to shove heaps of society and culture terms in to help you out

Gender:
Female

Age:
15-18

Nationality: Australian born Korean

1) Do your parents pressure you to have a good education?
Yes

2) Why do you think pressure to succeed exists?
Parents want the best for their children. I guess they want to feel that all the effort raising you will pay off with a high paying job, success and an easier life than them (if they think they have a crap life)

3) Do you think this pressure has a positive or negative effect on the socialisation (where by an individual learns the customs and norms of their culture to be accepted into society) process? Why/Why not?
i think it swings both ways since it really depends on how the individual responds to this pressure.
when my parents are forceful about it (imbalance of power and authority), obviously im going to get pissed off and be discouraged to study more kinda thing. And relates back to rebelling teenagers blah blah blah - thats the negative side to it
the positive effect i guess? after the whole education phase, over time, they'll learn to appreciate parents and broaden their personal experience for the future
i guess its all for the benefits and preparation to enable you to become a member of society

4) Do you think this pressure will exist in future generations? Why/ Why not?
i think it's inevitable that it will continue
the more competitive the macro world becomes (with globalisation and what not), the more competitive the micro world will become
and more competitiveness will include aspects of education, careers, job availabilites, vacancies etc.

5) What other pressures are placed on you personally by your parents?
abide to social norms (e.g. manners haha)
doing things that will shape who i am (e.g. while im in uni, do things for myself like travelling, volunteer work)

6) How does this pressure to succeed affect you? How does it make you feel?
if i dont succeed, then i feel pathetic and useless
but thats the motivation to try again, do better and achieve
what doesnt kill you, makes you stronger (urgh cheesy)
but i HATE it when *mostly asian parents* compare your acheivements to other family's kids
that fuels me to dislike asians more

omg i hope i helped you out, if you need anything more, pm me? lol i feel like i should help people with PIP's because im going to need help too!

[xm1chelle]

Gender:
Male
Female

Age:
15-18

Nationality: Korean

1) Do your parents pressure you to have a good education?
o No

2) Why do you think pressure to succeed exists? Parents, especially those with Korean backgrounds, want their children to succeed because it's in a sense, their name. If a child does bad, the family will be looked down upon.

3) Do you think this pressure has a positive or negative effect on the socialisation (where by an individual learns the customs and norms of their culture to be accepted into society) process? Why/Why not? It definitely has both a positive and negative effect. Speaking in negative sense, too much pressure causes too much stress, and in turn, students end up doing even worse than (not being pressured). It's also positive since kids are pressured to do well, there's a more greater chance of these kids getting in better colleges/better futures.

4) Do you think this pressure will exist in future generations? Why/ Why not? It probably won't exist in the next generation since students understand how much their parents have pressured them. Thus, these current-students will probably not pressure their children. (Hopefully not.)

5) What other pressures are placed on you personally by your parents? For me, personally, my parents do not pressure me. They tell me when it's time to work, give it my best, and when it's time to play, play. They're not the "typical" Asian parents.

6) How does this pressure to succeed affect you? How does it make you feel? I get competitive, but sometimes it's too much for me to handle. So instead of doing something productive, I do exactly the opposite. But, my parents don't pressure me, so it's a different story.

[miika]

Gender:
Male
Female

Age:
11-14
15-18
19-25
Other _____

Nationality: Chinese

1) Do your parents pressure you to have a good education?
o Yes
o No

2) Why do you think pressure to succeed exists?
Because they think a good education will determine how I do in life. If I don't then I'm gonna have a crappy job, and i'm gonna have to work tiring physical jobs 8-)

3) Do you think this pressure has a positive or negative effect on the socialization (where by an individual learns the customs and norms of their culture to be accepted into society) process? Why/Why not?
Positive, cause as there's more competition, there's more education in society..
Everyone's becoming smarter and smarter so eventually technology and our way of life is able to advance faster!

4) Do you think this pressure will exist in future generations? Why/ Why not?
Yeah probably, because lol... there's brighter people?

5) What other pressures are placed on you personally by your parents?
Ummm nothing much. Well. They just want me to study and they don't really care if I'm happy or not.

6) How does this pressure to succeed affect you? How does it make you feel?
I feel like I have no choice of my own sometimes.. and really forced into it =/

[chinese tears <3]

Gender: Female

Age: 15-18

Nationality: Asian-American

1) Do your parents pressure you to have a good education? Only to some degree.

2) Why do you think pressure to succeed exists? In our world, people tend to relate success to living well; To most people, success means having money therefore, a person is able to live comfortably and without worries. Our world is also very materialistic.

3) Do you think this pressure has a positive or negative effect on the socialisation (where by an individual learns the customs and norms of their culture to be accepted into society) process? Why/Why not? It is both a positive and negative effect; but I would lean more toward negative. It's positive in that it pushes people to strive for something higher, but it's negative because it created the idea that success means having a lot of money and materialistic goods. People think that this kind of success leads to a good and happy life, when it doesn't necessarily do so. People shouldn't be accepted or rejected by society based on how much they "succeed" if that success just means wealth.

4) Do you think this pressure will exist in future generations? Why/ Why not? It will definitely succeed and I think it will only grow. As time passes by, the world becomes more materialistic and focus on the idea of having more money, high paying job, etc. and it also relates to the fact that technology is also growing. To many, if people succeed, they can have the best.

5) What other pressures are placed on you personally by your parents? I mainly feel pressure regarding my faith and future career path.

6) How does this pressure to succeed affect you? How does it make you feel? I don't really like the idea of it, especially what "succeed" means to a large part of the world, but I still feel it and want to do well; I feel indecisive about it. Sometimes I want to embrace it, because yeah, technically, if we succeed that does mean we'll live comfortably and be happy to some point but at the same time I think it's too worldly and stupid.

[prechuz_azn]

Gender:
Female

Age:
15-18


Nationality:Vietnamese

1) Do your parents pressure you to have a good education?
o Yes


2) Why do you think pressure to succeed exists? I think it exists because well coming from an Asian family, it's all about the family name
and quality of living. If I do better, my parents can BRAG about it and I can support myself and them to live affluently.

3) Do you think this pressure has a positive or negative effect on the socialization (where by an individual learns the customs and norms of their culture to be accepted into society) process? Positive because then individuals will strive for "bigger and better things so society and thus society is able to enrich society into greater heights then it already has.

4) Do you think this pressure will exist in future generations? Yes[b]

5) What other pressures are placed on you personally by your parents?[b]Hmm..nothing really besides getting good grades

6) How does this pressure to succeed affect you? How does it make you feel? It effects me because whenever I fail or get an "okay" grade
I feel that I have failed and it makes me stronger as a student.

Thank you smile.gifrolleyes.gif

[sPark*]

do you still need people?


Gender:
Female

Age:
15-18

Nationality: _Korean_

1) Do your parents pressure you to have a good education?
o Yes

2) Why do you think pressure to succeed exists?

Without motivation you wouldnt try. Pressure is just one of the ways people try to motivate you.

3) Do you think this pressure has a positive or negative effect on the socialisation (where by an individual learns the customs and norms of their culture to be accepted into society) process? Why/Why not?

It depends on the pressure. if the pressure is not applied too forcefully and allows the individual to pursue their own interests then yes it has a positive affect. if one is pressured into doing something they do not like then it is negative.

4) Do you think this pressure will exist in future generations? Why/ Why not?

Yes of course. positive pressure = motivation = success. anything that has a good result will continue.

5) What other pressures are placed on you personally by your parents?

to pusue what i want. to not stray to far from my goals. being organized/neat.

6) How does this pressure to succeed affect you? How does it make you feel?

it makes me feel motivated but i wish for more. i feel like i do not have enough lolls.

[chocopocky]

Gender:
Female

Age:
15-18

Nationality: Asian american

1) Do your parents pressure you to have a good education?
Yes

2) Why do you think pressure to succeed exists?

the pressure to succeed exists so we can take advantage of the present and make it worth it so we can have a good future and worry less when we're a lot older.

3) Do you think this pressure has a positive or negative effect on the socialisation (where by an individual learns the customs and norms of their culture to be accepted into society) process? Why/Why not?

It depends on how the individual was taught and what they believe in. I think that it can be negative effect if the individual either is unwilling to accept their customs/norms or it just doesn't work out for them. But it can also be positive if the individual learns that the outcome of pressure has motivated them and strive them to become a better person after working hard.

4) Do you think this pressure will exist in future generations? Why/ Why not?

Yes, pressure will always exist. It is traditional and normal no matter what age, race, or size you are. In every society, there will be always something that will either push you towards or pull you away to reach a goal/decision and committing a greater affect upon yourself.

5) What other pressures are placed on you personally by your parents?

My parents sometimes pressure me on the importance of education, hormones, beauty standards, comparison to other "gifted kids", money, careers, confidence, changes in life, and ect. They pretty much tries to teach me life skills and how to use them wisely.

6) How does this pressure to succeed affect you? How does it make you feel?

At times, I'll feel very overwhelmed or upset. It sometimes bother me. At the same time, I am grateful to have been pushed and trying to realize the things that I want to do. It does help me become a better person each time.