To be honest, I’ve seen several cases like this.
Parents spend tens of millions at home to send their kids to American schools from a young age—summer camps, and then high school is followed by sending them abroad. After graduation, they come back to Taiwan, and the very first thing they do is complain that the home’s interior design is ugly, that their parents’ English has an accent, and that their family doesn’t know what “boutique coffee” is.
What’s even more outrageous?
They’re using their parents’ supplementary card to buy Aesop, and at the same time, in their Instagram Stories, they write, “Taiwanese people really don’t have any taste.”
The air goes suddenly quiet—not in your living room, but at my parents’ generation’s gatherings. Those uncles and aunts have worked hard to build a company, pushing their children into a world they themselves couldn’t reach back then. Then the kids come back and look at them the way you’d look at a relic from the last century.
Honestly, this kind of contradiction is very subtle. You take someone else’s resources to broaden your horizons, but when you come back you still look down on the resources themselves for not being “high-class” enough.
Have you ever thought that the position you’re standing in right now—criticizing—was exactly the stepping stone that lifted you up back then?
No, I’m not asking you to be grateful, but at least don’t step on others to get ahead.
$VELVET
Parents spend tens of millions at home to send their kids to American schools from a young age—summer camps, and then high school is followed by sending them abroad. After graduation, they come back to Taiwan, and the very first thing they do is complain that the home’s interior design is ugly, that their parents’ English has an accent, and that their family doesn’t know what “boutique coffee” is.
What’s even more outrageous?
They’re using their parents’ supplementary card to buy Aesop, and at the same time, in their Instagram Stories, they write, “Taiwanese people really don’t have any taste.”
The air goes suddenly quiet—not in your living room, but at my parents’ generation’s gatherings. Those uncles and aunts have worked hard to build a company, pushing their children into a world they themselves couldn’t reach back then. Then the kids come back and look at them the way you’d look at a relic from the last century.
Honestly, this kind of contradiction is very subtle. You take someone else’s resources to broaden your horizons, but when you come back you still look down on the resources themselves for not being “high-class” enough.
Have you ever thought that the position you’re standing in right now—criticizing—was exactly the stepping stone that lifted you up back then?
No, I’m not asking you to be grateful, but at least don’t step on others to get ahead.
$VELVET