The Ethnicity Of Asian Family Roles

468 Words1 Page
bulb-icon

Recommended: The impact of Confucianism on the oriental world

Word for word, the ethnicity of Asian is not just about chopsticks and rice. No matter in which part of the earth you live, being born as an Asian means setting your foot into the Confucian Value System. Each Asian individual’s way of living is determined and judged by this code of conduct. While the rest of the world is living in the age of technology, they still hover in the ‘Butterflies Lovers’ era. Their prescribed traditional family roles are defined by hierarchy, obligation, and duty. The lower your role is, the less right you have. To put it simply, the youngsters would never fully have own independence especially if you are a female. Asian families are thought of as a collective unit. To have an individualistic mindset is seen to be …show more content…

Before a son could get married with his girlfriend, he needs his parents’ approval of her as well as her parents’ approval of him. In most Asian countries, prospective partners are chosen on the basis of education level, family position, and the compatibility determined by Chinese astrology and numerology. Furthermore, because ancestor worship is emphasized, having sons to carry on the family name and serving in-laws is also a cherished value. Males within most oriental cultures are dominant and fathers handle familial disciplinarian responsibilities. On the other hand, women are self-sacrificing, and caring as mothers; taught to assist with household responsibilities as daughters; and adhere to the thrice-obeying rule (comply with fathers/eldest brother in youth, husbands in marriage, and sons when widowed) as wives. For instance, in Cambodia, couples wed through parental arrangement or by their own initiative. The Cambodian family is based on close relationships (extended kin). Women are taught to respect their husbands and are the primary caretakers of the family; women are responsible for domestic

Show More
Related

  • The House Of Lim Summary

    710 Words  | 2 Pages

    In her book, The House of Lim, author Margery Wolf observes the Lims, a large Chinese family living in a small village in Taiwan in the early 1960s (Wolf iv). She utilizes her book to portray the Lim family through multiple generations. She provides audiences with a firsthand account of the family life and structure within this specific region and offers information on various customs that the Lims and other families participate in. She particularly mentions and explains the marriage customs that are the norm within the society. Through Wolf’s ethnography it can be argued that parents should not dec5pide whom their children marry. This argument is obvious through the decline in marriage to simpua, or little girls taken in and raised as future daughter-in-laws, and the influence parents have over their children (Freedman xi).

    Read More

  • Jade of Peony

    2075 Words  | 5 Pages

    Firstly, the relationship expectations in Chinese customs and traditions were strongly held onto. The daughters of the Chinese family were considered as a shame for the family. The sons of the family were given more honour than the daughters. In addition, some daughters were even discriminated. “If you want a place in this world ... do not be born as a girl child” (Choy 27). The girls from the Chinese family were considered useless. They were always looked down upon in a family; they felt as if the girls cannot provide a family with wealth. Chinese society is throwing away its little girls at an astounding rate. For every 100 girls registered at birth, there are 118 little boys in other words, nearly one seventh of Chinese girl babies are going missing (Baldwin 40). The parents from Chinese family had a preference for boys as they thought; boys could work and provide the family income. Due to Chinese culture preference to having boys, girls often did not have the right to live. In the Chinese ethnicity, the family always obeyed the elder’s decision. When the family was trying to adapt to the new country and they were tryin...

    Read More

  • How Eric Liu Presents His Life As A Native Immigrant To Asian Americans?

    1475 Words  | 3 Pages

    In this article, Eric Liu presents his life as a native immigrant to an Asian American individual. He shares his experience through his reflection of ideas and emotions. Along with his story, it relates to the ideas of people’s journey from adolescence to adulthood. Eric’s inspirational experience is directed towards minority groups who try to adapt to the American culture and lifestyle. His parents emigrated from China to America, before he was born which he later became exposed to the freedom and diverse society. This results in beneficial effects for his individuality, career opportunities, and lifestyle. Although his parents have lived in a different culture than him, his life in America has made him assimilated into the American society

    Read More

  • Ethnography on Cambodian Americans

    902 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Cambodian culture is very collectivistic and a lot of those values are still upheld by the younger generations of Cambodian Americans. In Cambodian culture, family comes first. Terry Nhim, her in-laws Mon Neang and Roeun Muth and her brother in-law Vanna Neang all greatly emphasized the importance of family and looking out for one another. “Our family is large, not just my parents and siblings but rather my extended family as well. We try to be close to one another, and of course, there are some families we’re not as close to as others.

    Read More

  • Family Structure In Mexican Culture, And Dating And Marriage In A Mexican Family

    1612 Words  | 4 Pages

    Every culture has its own unique values, beliefs and norms. Culture defines the identity and interests of a society. Understanding other’s culture is crucial in preparing ourselves for the global experience in the twenty-first century. As the world is becoming more connected to each other, interaction between cultures is unavoidable. I consider myself lucky to live in one of the most diverse cities in the world where I get chance to interact with people of different cultures. In this paper, I will discuss my findings about Family Structure in a Mexican culture, and Dating and Marriage in an African / Gabonese culture. Having a chance to understand various cultures, I realized that beliefs and practices tend to vary from culture to culture.

    Read More

  • Communication in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

    578 Words  | 2 Pages

    Lindo Jong provides the reader with a summary of her difficulty in passing along the Chinese culture to her daughter: “I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these two things do not mix? I taught her how American circumstances work. If you are born poor here, it's no lasting shame . . . You do not have to sit like a Buddha under a tree letting pigeons drop their dirty business on your head . . . In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. . . . but I couldn't teach her about Chinese character . . . How to know your own worth and polish it, never flashing it around like a cheap ring. Why Chinese thinking is best”(Tan 289).

    Read More

  • Researching the Asian American Culture

    1635 Words  | 4 Pages

    However, Asians are rapidly becoming a greater force in American culture as the proportion of educated Asian-Americans rises. Despite small numbers, they begin to have more and more influence in the business and professional worlds as well as academics. They are an interesting group, however, caught between two extremely different cultures as they seek to strike a balance between the ideals of their parents and the world they live in.

    Read More

  • Assimilation Struggle: Chinese-Americans in the 20th Century

    1222 Words  | 3 Pages

    The twentieth century was an awesome time in the historical backdrop of relocations that happened the world over. In this century individuals recorded development starting with one place then onto the next. The developments were required by the quest for greener settlements of life. Individuals of the Asian birthplace relocated to the U.S. what's more, gotten themselves torn between their own way of life and the American practices. This two opposite compels one of inventiveness and the other recently discovered, was battled by the Chinese era that was brought up in the American foundation. This skirmish of thought drove Chinese Americans to an inside feedback between what they are by birth and what nature

    Read More

  • Confucianism And Raise The Red

    1268 Words  | 3 Pages

    But one begins to detect a new theme emerging in society, especially amongst the Chinese reformers: the theme of individualism opposed to familialism. Today, would the Confucian family be more and more aware of abuse of women and children? Rituals and traditions can be seen as both positive and negative. The ways in which women suffered affirm that some rituals were abusive. There are multiple signs indeed that something has gone badly wrong with the Chinese family traditions that led to family instability.

    Read More

  • Theme Of A Pair Of Tickets By Amy Tan

    869 Words  | 2 Pages

    June-May fulfills her mother’s name and life goal, her long-cherished wish. She finally meets her twin sisters and in an essence fulfills and reunites her mother with her daughter through her. For when they are all together they are one; they are their mother. It is here that June-May fulfills the family portion of her Chinese culture of family. In addition, she fully embraces herself as Chinese. She realizes that family is made out of love and that family is the key to being Chinese. “And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.” (Tan 159). Finally, her mother’s life burden is lifted and June-May’s doubts of being Chinese are set aside or as she says “After all these years, it can finally be let go,” (Tan 159).

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative: My Racial Identity

    623 Words  | 2 Pages

    My Asian heritage would continue to confuse me until I left the comforts of my own home and country, to a place where I didn’t speak a lick of the language. The thick, hot air of Taiwan stuck to me like a layer of lotion and was a constant reminder that I was no longer in my comfort zone. It wasn’t until I saw the small patches of grass sprouting between the cracks of concrete in the remainders of my Ahgong’s (grandpa) tiny and now non-existent ancestral home that I began to understand my cultural

    Read More

  • The One Child Policy and Gender Inequality

    1947 Words  | 4 Pages

    Given the high sex ratio in recent China population report, the abnormally excessive male birth exemplifies the persistence of son preference on women’s fertility behavior. Son preference rooted in Chinese agriculture-based economy and historical feudalism, in consistence with the reliance on laborers and continuing the family line. Older people prefer to depend on their sons to get financial and physical support, while daughters are regarded as property of their husband’s family since the day of marriage.

    Read More

  • Asian American Literature

    499 Words  | 1 Pages

    For those Asian Americans who make known their discontent with the injustice and discrimination that they feel, in the white culture, this translates to attacking American superiority and initiating insecurities. For Mura, a writer who dared to question why an Asian American was not allowed to audition for an Asian American role, his punishment was “the ostracism and demonization that ensued. In essence, he was shunned” (Hongo 4) by the white people who could not believe that he would attack their superior American ways. According to writers such as Frank Chin and the rest of the “Aiiieeeee!” group, the Americans have dictated Asian culture and created a perception as “nice and quiet” (Chin 1972, 18), “mama’s boys and crybabies” without “a man in all [the] males.” (Chin 1972, 24). This has become the belief of the proceeding generations of Asian Americans and therefore manifested these stereotypes.

    Read More

  • Gender Roles In The Family

    1624 Words  | 4 Pages

    Gender roles are extremely important to the functioning of families. The family is one of the most important institutions. It can be nurturing, empowering, and strong. Some families are still very traditional. The woman or mother of the family stays at home to take care of the children and household duties. The man or father figure goes to work so that he can provide for his family. Many people believe that this is the way that things should be. Gender determines the expectations for the family. This review will explain those expectations and how it affects the family.

    Read More

  • Western Culture Interview Paper

    1224 Words  | 3 Pages

    Introduction Asian culture has a lot of differences than the Western culture due to the geographical distinctions, contrasting political ideologies. For researching and understanding more cultural disparities, I interviewed Bo Wang, a female Chinese citizen who has lived in the United States for two months. She has lived in Shanghai, China for almost 40 years, and it was her first time living in the western world. This interview was conducted on the morning of Feb 14th, 2017, and the location was at a personal site, my apartment, because there would be more privacy. She shared a lot of useful information about China.

    Read More

More about The Ethnicity Of Asian Family Roles

Open Document