Asian American Family System

Family Systems
Virtue is a paramount importance in the Asian values. People are expected to serve others as a moral obligation. This helps explains the Asian family structure. In Asian culture, patriarchy prevails, with the father exerting a dominant influence, whereas the mother seldom ventures out of the home. In America, Asian women are forced by economic reasons to work outside the home, however, for the elder generation, it has been difficult to change thousands of years of cultural traditions. As for sons and daughters, sons are clearly preferred, and instances of female infanticide are still being performed in rural Asian areas. Daughters are expected to follow in their mothers’ footsteps as dutiful wives and child-bearers. In American

Some parents are too eager to help their children that they become unrealistic about their children's limitations. Asian parents do several things that allow their children to embrace the role of student, such manage their children's schedules, assume the role of educator after school, and teach their children that being a student is both fun and rewarding (Eltiti, Pak, Quyen, 2016). Asian American students aren’t different from ethnic group, however, what makes them unique is their culture and tradition of learning. Asian parents simply want their children to value their education like the parents do. Asian American parents may not know which child rearing practices are considered abusive or neglectful in America. Traditional Asian disciplinary practices include spanking. Asian American parents may not be familiar with alternative parenting skills and disciplinary practices, such as time-outs. Asian families are not as verbally or openly affectionate toward children as families are expected to be by American

However, regardless of how hard Asian Americans try to switch their original cultural values or behaviors, they remain different from the majority. It is a great concern that often emphasizes external assimilation to the mainstream America but overlooks the internal stress experienced by the Asian Americans during the process of assimilation (Park, Jude, 2017). Acculturation has been defined as the “phenomena which result when groups of individuals having diverse cultures come into continuous first-hand contact with subsequent changes in the original culture patterns of either or both groups” (Lui, 2018). For adolescents who are members of Asian descent, a sense of identity is often an issue especially when the values and beliefs of original culture differ significantly to the host society. Cultural differences have been observed between growing up process of Asian children due to the two obvious contrasting cultures. A primary difference between Asian and American cultural belief systems lies in the concept of the