The other day I stumbled across this article on the internet. As someone who immigrated to America as a child, I also faced the pressure put on me by my mom and my family.
Jennifer Pan's parents moved to Canada from Vietnam as Political Refugee. Luckily, they were able to settle down and live a very good life. When Jennifer was growing up, her parents had lot of expectation on her to work just as hard as them. Her parents didn't let her go to parties, dances, and hardly sleep overs. Near the end of high school, she was forging her transcript and forged her admission to University of Toronto. After she "graduated" at U of T.
Her parent's eventually found out and was furious. Even after finding out that their daughter wasn't going to U of T nor graduated from High school. They still wanted her to enroll in a college to become a pharmaceutical lab technician or a nurse. Her boyfriend also broke up with her, which caused her to make up these bizarre tales about the new girl he was dating in order to get him to leave her. It worked to an extent, Daniel and Jennifer decided to hire hit men to kill her parents.
It was made to look like a home robbery. Her mom was shot dead, and her dad was injured badly. Remarkably, it was her dad that found out this wasn't a home robbery gone wrong. He had remember everything that night and saw his daughter talking to the hit men as if they were friends.
To read more: http://www.torontolife.com/informer/features/2015/07/22/jennifer-pan-revenge/
I personally never had my mom be that strict with me. When she became really strict, I started to tell her it made me feel and how I wish she could be supportive. I believe that there is a lack of communication between her parents and her. Sure, her parents might have been extremely strict, but because she didnt really speak much about it, I don't think her parents think what they were doing was wrong.
Even if she did speak about it, I think her parents should be more open-minded and not so strict about how their daughter's life should be like. Overall, I think both her and her parents are at fault.
What do you guys think? Can you guys relate to her? Do you guys think it was immoral and unethical?
I can remember times when I was in high school that my mom infuriated me but this is definitely an extreme that I would have never even considered, even remotely in my wildest dreams, of going to. This young woman sounds like she may be mentally ill. That is the behavior of someone who is a psychopath with the elaborate lying and scheming.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I think all of us can relate to her initial feelings of frustration, I doubt any of us would go to the extremes that Jennifer did. I believe along with Miss B that there are some underlying causes of her actions. Possibly there are some mental disorders that are leading her to lie and feel the need to have her parents murdered. I totally believe that these actions were immoral and unethical. Jennifer's parents only wanted what was best for their daughter and I believe that they would have listened to her feelings toward their pressure and would have reacted accordingly.
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