I love this topic !
Before I start babylonx you said:
Most educated Assyrian youths now a days have parents who were teachers,doctors,lawyers,engineer back in big Iraqi cities like Baghdad, Mosel,Basra,etc. The uneducated Assyrian youth's parents were mostly uneducated who lived in villages in northern Iraq and fled to Turkey when the war started. So i guess like father like son.
I completely disagree with you here. My parents are not the most educated people however, my brother has already graduated post-secondary and I'm in the midst of completing my final year. If this was an opinion, I think you should have stated so, instead of making it appear as though this is fact. This is far from the fact. I know a handful of Assyrians who's parents were professors back in Iraq, Doctors etc..and their children are probably the biggest bums, can't hold a job, have not even spent a year in highschool or any other learning institution.
I think this is a stigma that has been attached to Assyrian people. We are a generally uneducated population. I dont understand what the reasons are for this but I have my own opinions.
This is my opinion on why a lot of people who immigrate out of Iraq or elsewhere in the M.E. fall into this cycle:
When a family decides to leave their home in Iraq or wherever and immigrate to Canada or the U.S. they are generally leaving with nothing. They arrive in a country where they may not know anyone. They have to build their lives from scratch. In a lot of circumstances, the family has a major language and communicative barrier so they are inclined to find jobs that pay peanuts. Because of that, the parents are forced to drag their children into the workforce in order to collect enough money just for bare survival. Education takes a backseat to work/survival.
Once the family has settled into their new lives, it is know 'too late' for their children to go out and educate themselves. So now they too are forced to accept poor paying jobs that consist of hard physical labour and that have no potential for growth.
NOW for the ones who are born in the West or raised here when they were very very young.
These people here are the ones who bug me. These are the people who had their parents give up their lives in Iraq or wherever to come to a country that would offer more for their children.
These are the people who take the easy way out (in most circumstances)...I don't look down upon anyone without an education, but if it is for a legitimate reason. I don't think not liking school is a legitimate reason.
I don't understand why someone would choose a 12-12 job over a 9-5 job? or WHY someone would prefer to work in a cold factory over a nice warm office?? I mean, we are provided with the luxury of being able to attend school freely, and yet we fail to take advantage of it.
If you can't afford post secondary institutions because they are too expensive, there are SO many other methods of funding..Bursaries, OSAP, scholarships, various student loans. Unless various methods are utilised or even investigated there is no way of saying someone 'tried.
It's a real shame that we, as a community, choose to throw away or ignore the resources we are given. Especially since we are born already placed in the middle of a dire situation.
