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Originally posted by Vandematram

This is a typical desi style talk which goes on in Canada.

If you have been able to get out of this cycle then you are GRRRRRRRRRRReat!.

I'm also part of the same cycle.

There are two types of cycles one a Punjabi Cycle and others.
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1.Others(people from other parts of India):

They have 20 yrs of top management experience in India, he is a BTECH, MBA while his wife is Post Graduate working in a MNC in India. The total income for their family in INR is Rs.50Lakh and still we want to immigrate to Canada as it offer good educational opportunity for our children.

They immigrate to Canada from India. They immediately find that no homework ever comes home; while their counterpart kids in India are slogging hours endless doing homework and also doing other courses.

The kid slowly loses interest in sciences, maths and other technology related courses. Somehow by hook or crook the kid reaches university either in Life Sciences or some course like Police Foundation or Physiotheraphy degree.

The parents thought that their kids will do more and go onto Princeton, Harvard or Caltech and attain a name for themselves.

While the kids struggle through Grade 12 Calculus or Physics and somehow make it to University and some of them end up in Computer Science in Waterloo. Then the race starts and kids are not able to match up to the counter parts from India and hence start crying and then eventually go to some softer option.


The girls usually end up doing life sciences and then go onto a Health Science course and end up working for a NGO or a settlement service or some form of business that may be typically Insurance, Bank or mortgage business.

The parents thought that their children will invent the next USB or the next IPAD while the kids want to do their 40 hours make about 40K per year and live in a downtown loft and party on fridays. They do not want to go back to India.

While their counterpart kid who never left India goes onto IIT and then to Stanford and is a Assistant Professor in a State University in USA.

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2.Typical Punjabi kid:

The family has immigrated from Punjab and they have never seen Jallandhar and their next destination outside their village in Punjab is Toronto.

The father either works as a truck driver or a taxi driver while their mom works in a factory doing labour job.

The kid does not have any help at home for education. The kid realizes early that it cannot go onto university and looks around for a practical money making course.

If it is a girl the kid usually goes onto do a course like dental assistant, physiotheraphy assistant, beautician or some course and start working right out of school making 20 bucks an hour. The kid initially does part time and later on goes onto make a fulltime job and ends up making 50K.


If it is a boy he ends up becoming a truck driver or a fork lift operator. He also becomes a parttime home renovator. He starts making 100K the next 5 years and owns a million dollar property in Brampton by his 30's.

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I do not know who the hare is and the tortoise is in this story.

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~ Morning rain

US(which incidentally is my favorite, having worked for Disney there) is a done deal now.

It will take many a healing years to reorganize (Legalizing pot is a good idea as it would take away some pain)

Canada on the other hand is trying to diversify from US to rest of the world.

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Originally posted by morning_rain


What is the point of writing this?

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Originally posted by imwhoever

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Originally posted by morning_rain


What is the point of writing this?

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for mass mourning..

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Dimple2001