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As I read your article here, I found so many similarities in our experience. I want to highlight the part about parental expectation for our career paths. I'm not sure if it's a common theme among parents of the "old world" (China, Turkey), but in my culture, parents wield such an authoritarian power on the lives of their children, that they assume the right to decide what their children will study and the profession they will work in. Mine talked me out of becoming an artist, for which I've been resentful most of my life. Kudos to you that you have claimed your own agency in deciding what you want to do with your life.

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