Worldview Essay

Chinese parents and American parents differ greatly in their parenting styles and a noticeable difference can be seen in the success of their children. The children of Chinese parents often excel in various areas, including in their educational, musical, and professional lives. The children of American parents, however, usually have a harder time excelling in those areas. Chinese parents and American parents hold opposing philosophies about how they view their children, opposing methods about how they raise their children, and opposing effects on the personalities of their children.

women, children, and it also create cross-generational influences unique to every family. In using this example of Asian American families, Brooks (2008) suggested:

Just like many other families, Asian values are similar to those of American values but, there are some differences. One main similarity between Asians and Americans is that both seek for the best quality of life they possibly deserve. The Asian culture is very communal and family orientated, unlike the American culture, Americans tend to be very independent and individually orientated. An interesting topic that I came across was how Asian and Americans interpret directness. In the Asian culture people tend to value politeness above directness. On the other hand Americans tend to value directness over being polite, in other words Americans lay it out how it is and Asians tend to sugar coat it. Other distinctive behaviors that differentiate from Asian and Americans are how they feel about working hard. Asians value hard work above play and Americans feel play

The source of this discourse can be attributed to global biases and stereotypes of Asian American students. Asian American students are stereotyped for being model students when it comes to education. Most of this academic achievement has been attributed to Asian cultural values that promote educational endeavors. Culture is a major explanation for achievement differences. The article,” Asian-American educational achievements: A phenomenon in search of an explanation” states, “demands and expectations for achievement and upward mobility, induction of guilt about parental sacrifice and the need to fulfill obligations” (Sue, S., & Okazaki, S., 2009), implying that those are key contributors to why Asian families promote educational achievements.

He was an active participation during the protests, but Chen stopped him to this movement. He saw these students protesting around him are just like him, and he can discover more in this drastic environment about who he is actually. Asian Americans commonly face challenges in establishing cultural identity, especially second-generation immigrants just like Paul who struggle to balance traditional cultural ideas with the pressure of assimilating into American cultural society. When working with individuals of Asian ancestry, educators need to understand three of the main Eastern philosophies and their impact on Asian culture: Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. Within these philosophies families are highly structured, hierarchical, and paternal. Within the family systems children are taught that they must avoid bringing shame to their family and that the welfare and integrity of the family are very important. These Asian philosophies also teach principles of peace, balance, and harmony, causing some Asians to avoid confrontation or appear passive, indifferent, or

The analysis of the African American culture is to be compared to the culture of Asian Americans. The culture of Asian Americans is considered as the model minority. The term, model minority is a minority group who are perceived to be successful compared to other minority groups. The culture of African Americans consists of families who tolerate foolish behavior and whose standards are not that high and strict. The culture of Asian Americans (families) is in contrast to the culture of African Americans (families). The culture includes: providing a secure environment for children, pushing children to work harder, foster savings, being disciplined and submissive, motivate and discipline their children, establish a sense of obedience, promotes individualism, and the development of Confucian ethic. The Asian American culture is a positive factor compared to the African American culture (negative difference) towards African Americans. Moynihan must incorporate the element of the race’s culture in order to identify a solution to the poverty of the particular race. Understanding the race is simply not content when it is necessary to come up with solutions to poverty of a particular race. The opinion of Robert G. Lee’s as to whether or not Asian America Model Minority is true. Lee considers the Asian American model minority to be a myth. This is because of not everyone is or was successful from the Asian American model minority. Since the 1970s, a majority of Asian

This was program showed that students and parents opened a door to learn from one another. When growing up, children don’t tend to question their parents as to why they are raising them a certain way. This grant gave these families an opportunity to get parents and children to open up and talk as to why Asian American parents have such high expectations of their children. For most parents all one wants is for their child to be able to have a happy and successful life, but each parent may have different expectations of how their children will achieve that goal.

Being good or proficient in school activities or subject for Asian children, not only symbolized how hard the child works but also betray among his/her family and the environment surrounding it. Asian parents do not make excuses for their children's failures. Family members are encouraged to do their best because failure would bring shame and embarrassment not only to them personally but to their whole family. They don't blame the teacher, the school, or the system. They just hold their child responsible for his/her academic achievements. Asian American students are positively stereotyped as smart, high-achieving and hard working. Childrens are abiding by social rules of their Asian culture. Therefore, they are likely to be placed in competitive

In North America, cultural upbringing and parental expectations have affected the psychosocial well-being of East Asian-American youths in terms of emotional and social facets.

| Asian are heavily influenced by the values of family, hard work, the need for respect and saving “face.” Asians have strong family values and high education values; they are also a very frugal group of people. Ethnic communities should be valued because of the important roles they play in enabling people to survive and thrive.

My impression of this culture was family structure is very important. Also, education is very important to Asian American. Because if an Asian student does not do well in school, they will bring shame on their family. In a 2004 study by Schaefer(2011), only 48.2% of Asian American 25 years old or older held bachelor’s degrees, compared to 29.7% European Americans.

The process of locus of control is an individual’s beliefs about what determines their rewards or outcomes in life. It was developed in the 1950’s by Julian B. Rotter. Two examples of locus of control are internal locus of control and external locus of control. It is important to have a locus of control because the students with an internal locus of control tend to study longer and do better academically, while students with an external locus of control tend to blame their surroundings like their teachers, friends, and family.

(Tyler Uberstine) An individual is responsible for the situations that occur within their life, namely their psychological decisions and the examination of their own conscience. However, the circumstances and external factors on an event can really shift the responsibility from the individual to an extraneous force. When one’s “locus of control” is wholly external, the surrounding world and its problems are beyond his/her control, causing a submissive mindset.

Locus of control is what you do and act upon a situation. Taking responsibility for everything you do or try out. Internal is when you take responsibility for what you do and except the consequences if you were wrong, but if you did the right thing it can benefit you. Then there’s external and it’s when you blame everyone else for something you didn’t do. If you don’t study for a test and you fail that test and you blame your teachers and for nobody teaching you good that’s called external. If you do study for the test and you’re ready and you ace the test because you get older you take on more responsibilities and nobody has to constantly elucidate everything to you. External locus can be changed by being responsible and

The habits of successful students all starts with locus of control. Locus of control is how your mind looks at the outside world. Here’s an example if fail your test for the semester and you blame it on your teacher. Well that what is called external locus of control. But what if you look at things different and you fail that same test but this time you think of it as your fault you might have not studied enough. Well that’s called inner locus of control.