Here’s a technology story about an Asian American that’s more than just a stereotype builder.
It’s a stereotype buster.
You know about the Asian American kid whose parents torment him/her into becoming the doctor because the family needed a reliable cash cow for the future. I know one child who is being prodded into medicine.
And she’s only 11.
Let’s hope she rebels at some point. But how many of you know anyone who has gone against the wishes of their parents and dumped the Gray’s Anatomy (the thick bible of body parts is “Gray’s”, the TV show is “Grey’s”)?
Arnold Kim did both. He dutifully became a doctor. But he pursued his passion, the Apple computer. And now he blogs about it incessantly. He does it so well that he draws 4.4 million people and 40 million page views a month.
His macrumors.com has become his all-consuming passion.
And now he can quit playing a doctor in real life.
For doting, prodding APA parents , it shows what happens when you let your children pursue their dreams and not yours.
It may just all work out.