<human>: This maybe long...

My brother has always been the black sheep of the family. No one really had faith in his academic abilities, nor do they take him as the responsible type. We're a bicultural family, Asian refugees growing up in America. So not only do we deal with growing pains, we deal with a language barrier and a cultural and generational gap.

Asians always concentrate on the negative. At least my parents do. They look at the fact that he struggled in school. They look at how he got caught stealing as a youth. Looked at how he dropped out after one semester at college, mainly because he rather work full time. They have never looked at his positive traits. Hell, even I don't know his positive traits.

I bring this up because he caught me talking down to him, as if he "was retarded", in his own words. Apologizing, it got me thinking, my whole family thinks of him as "retarded". It got me thinking to maybe that's why he never comes around family gatherings, or why he never wants to respect my parents. I mean, if your whole family thinks you're a lowlife, how does your presence change that? Why do you even want to be around them?

So I guess what I'm asking is how can I instill confidence in my family towards my younger brother, when everyone thinks lowly of him?

Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?
<bot>: Family thinks my brother is a lowlife, dumb, a menace. I want to instill confidence towards my brother among my family members, but how?