My family isn't like that except for the pushing to do work crap. We're unfortunately too close. We tell jokes , hug, say good night, and crap like that. But when it comes to school, work, and succeeding...the pressure is like the bottom of the flocking Mariana Trench. The only American schools I've been to are private Catholic schools and a "private" state run school so I don't really know what it's like in the actual public school system. Goddamn bike gangs... Also, in India the caste system is still being practiced in many parts of the country.