Xenophobia is a stress disease in which encountering immigrants or foreigners causes excessive resistance of fear.
In my opinion you should do what you love. It is very unlikely to have a successfully career in art, and engineering is definitely a safer choice. But life is about taking risks, and you want to do what makes you happy with the time you have
Was their more to the question or I this all of it. It seems like to me that their should be more, like answers to choose from or something, by the way the question was worded.