And soon Asian Americans will become average ...
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The dissolution of ‘Tiger Moms’ and the new face of Asian American parenting
Many Asian Americans know the reality of growing up with piano lessons on Saturday, language school on Sunday — and trying to push back on it all whenever possible in-between.
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Chan is among a number of Generation X and older millennial Asian Americans who have been rejecting the stricter “tiger parenting” style for a looser approach — one with less emphasis on achievements and more focus on just allowing feelings to be felt and kids to be kids.
...Seem to pretty much follow the trend that past the second generation the immigrants' descendants would just blend into the melting pot.
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The dissolution of ‘Tiger Moms’ and the new face of Asian American parenting
Many Asian Americans know the reality of growing up with piano lessons on Saturday, language school on Sunday — and trying to push back on it all whenever possible in-between.
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Chan is among a number of Generation X and older millennial Asian Americans who have been rejecting the stricter “tiger parenting” style for a looser approach — one with less emphasis on achievements and more focus on just allowing feelings to be felt and kids to be kids.
...Seem to pretty much follow the trend that past the second generation the immigrants' descendants would just blend into the melting pot.
@Axtremus said in And soon Asian Americans will become average ...:
Seem to pretty much follow the trend that past the second generation the immigrants' descendants would just blend into the melting pot.
Exactly. I think that there is always the greatest "conflict" between those who arrive from a different country (regardless of country) as adults and the first generation born in the new country.
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In fairness, there is a sense of great adventure to immigrating to a new country where your hard work will be rewarded with a lifestyle you could not have achieved in your home country. But of course, being born somewhere, life there is the antithesis of adventure, so that motivation necessarily evaporates over the course of a generation or two.
