Is it normal that my parents use me to boost their ego and public image?

I admit that I'm writing this as a way to vent to a certain extent. I recently graduated from high school and realized that my parents were really abusive towards me in a very specific manner.

I was a really good student, but they took for granted that I had to be one. They wanted me to be popular and good at sports as well, even if it would cost me my grades! My mom HATED my geeky friends and literally told me to stop hanging out with "losers". She told me to hang out with the "kids that come home every now and then", who were actually just the douchebag/bully classmates I happened to be assigned as a tutor.

Talking more about the geeky part, my parents judge me for playing video games and watching anime. I don't even know where they learned this, but they literally told me once to stop with the "weaboo shit". This goes even further, as they didn't allow me to watch kids shows when I was little or watch Disney films, as they are not "serious" things.

My parents forced me to stay in the swimming team, for which I had to wake up at 5:30 every day, including school holidays. I was literally the slowest and always had humiliating competitions were I always got the worst scores. I like sports, but I do not like to compete and I had no friends at the swimming team in particular... yet, my parents constantly berated me for not "giving my all".

In a highly hypocritical move, my parents forced me to go to church every Sunday, but we are non-believers at home! In fact, my parents themselves NEVER go to church. My mom said that people have to think that I go on my own accord and not forced by my parents. My mom in particular has a tendency to do this, I have to act as an ambassador to our family and make us all look good. In fact, my mom forces me to attend every single celebration from our extended family (like, 50+ members), even when I barely know the people. I literally still go to children's birthdays even though I'm over 18. Most of my extended family doesn't even know my name! Needless to say, I am forced to act with flawless manners in front of all of them, dress properly and have a formal haircut. Needless to say, my parents choose all my clothes and my hair style. My mom doesn't even let me choose how to combine my clothes and constantly tells me that I have "peasant tendencies" in the way I want to dress myself.

My dad is less active in these actions, but deep inside he is just like my mom. During my graduation day, one of my classmates played the piano for the audience. Instead of congratulating me after the ceremony, my dad asked me: "How come you don't play the piano?", when I literally have no time because of my studies and my swimming lessons; plus we don't have a piano at home and he never even told me to learn music at any point in my life. Needless to say, also most of our conversations about swimming are about me not being like "this kid" or "the other kid".

I'm about to go to college and my parents gave me 2 options: Engineering or Architecture. I want to study social sciences, but my mom already told me she will never support me (economically) if I do so. I have never worked and I will never be able to pay for college by myself at least for a few years.

My friends tell me that I "exaggerate" and that I should be happy that my parents don't beat me and that they still kind of support me economically. But I wanted to know if you people thought the same. So, is any of this "normal"?