Why do asian parents have their children take piano??

[Two PM]

piano is okay. it's kinda fun to play, but if you play every damn day since you were four, it gets quite irritating.  

[niishi91]

I take piano lessons too. My dad asked me whether i wanted to so, I said yes. I think i took piano lessons at age 6 or 7. Not sure. LOL!  

[azngrl1]

well im asian, but i dont play piano, but a lot of my friends do and they are japanese... hmm...... lol  

[[Fir3_F0x]]

i dont play piano and im viet =] my mom says that if you can sing, dance, or play an instrument then when your sad you can keep yourself busy or even make your troubles go away =] i wanna learn to play the piano tho =D  

[soyXsauce]

i played the flute in 6th grade, i wasn't much into it after that year. but my lil sis plays the piano, and i know a lot of asians that do too. i remember the lil asian pianist on America's Got Talent. azn representin!  

[henred5]

[.day.dreamer.]

I`m asian, and I`ve started piano since I was six years of age. When I had those recitals, most of the performers were asian. Especially this year, when I my score was distinction, most of them were asians??

I`ve always thought this weird .. what do you thinkk??

Its not just the asains...european parents do it too! I am not good with learning intriments but in secondry I learned how to pay a keyboard/piano to some extent...but i don't get tutored the piano every one night a week...  

[Nori Ninja]

I don't play the piano... but then again, I'm only half... sweatdrop  

[cho-rohk]

the piano thing must be asian...
jeez, all three children of my family (including me) took piano. now we all sort of ditched it. especially me. xp

well, in a broader sense, probably other races seem to be the same. its just the asian conscience thing going on, i guess.  

[Azirru]

Mouthful of Metal

piano is okay. it's kinda fun to play, but if you play every damn day since you were four, it gets quite irritating.

yeye...

at age four?

you might like playing it because your parents told you so... if they not... you might rather play with your toys or play with your friends.

until you like it because they told you so...

until the told-you-so look is the picture running through your head whenever you're playing piano and you get irritated.

I read a readings once on a deep-cave-of-nowhere (a.k.a. UP main library) that piano or other musical instruments help the child/ren to increase their I.Q. in some ways.

Well... I think it is more effective when parents do not force you to do things you want to do and get enough of that i-told-you-so look...  

[aliamalfoy]

A lot of asian parents make their children play violin or piano..

They focus on academics a lot too..  

[[ `RAWR ]]

its usually piano or violin O__o


I played the violin  

[Laughing Platypus]

[ `RAWR ]

its usually piano or violin O__o


I played the violin

Yeah, I played the violin for 2 years.
Then quit cuz I suck at reading notes and my teacher was a buttface... stare

On a random note, I can only play Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano.  

[kurious_kitkats]

nope. i think asians jus likes playing pianoes. my asian friends likes playing piano, they weren't force to. my bro plays it too and he wasn't force to. i like playing it for fun and so does my cousins  

[yusukekidsister11]

good question...i hated it verryyyy much my friends been doing it since she was like 5...i did it when i wa 8, but i stopped nowww i got tired of it...i play trombone nowwww ^_^