Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : This is an ongoing argument I've got going with my family. It has been my long term aim to become a full time ESL teacher (and I already have my qualification), and more recently I've begun to actually look for a job. 

  Now the problem comes because i simply have no interest in going to certain countries. In particular I've got no enthusiasm whatsoever for going to China, Vietnam or most other places in the Far East, partially for reasons of distance. But my biggest reason for not wanting to go is, because I'm going to be actually living full-time in a foreign country for any sort of job like this, is that I don't have the remotest interest in actually living there, nor in the language (language lessons in the native language or languages are often an included part of the job benefits), nor the culture of most of these countries. I did have a passing flirtation with Japanese ages ago but this is it. 

  This has caused a number of small but frequent arguments with my family who, admittedly enthusiastic to help me, have seemingly missed out the part where I expressed my wish not to go to China, Vietnam, Indonesia etc. They've so far argued that: 

* I should just do it for experience. 

* I'm making assumptions about countries I don't know anything about because I've never been there. 

* I might find on going there that there is something for me to enjoy. 

* I can 'always come back home'. 

* That I can't be picky about my first ESL job. 

* that it's somewhere they'd love to experience themselves and as they'd never have chance, I should go.  

   On the reverse, I feel that they're trying to steer me into making a poor decision for their own sake. They're not the ones who, if they do end up somewhere they hate, aren't going to have to live for at least some months there because yay, contract terms. 

So, am I being an asshole for digging my heels in about this? 