Karen Nguyen
ASA 4
16 May 2017
Laotian
Girls
For
this post, I wanted to focus on the aspect of the reading that involving the
parent-child communication. It was interesting to read about the effects of
combining traditional familial expectations with behavior characteristic of
Americans or the West. In the Laotian-American communities, the
second-generation daughters who are most exposed to the American ideals of
independence and development of the self, struggle to understand and uphold the
tradition of the control on women. When Shah talked about how Laotian
second-generation daughters still keep with traditional values such as
respecting elders regardless of how long they spent in AYA, I could definitely
relate. As much as I could learn about American ideas that might clash with
those belonging to my Vietnamese heritage, I couldn’t fathom eliminating
essential values such as respecting hierarchies within the family because I
have adopted it into my own human value system. The moment people begin to
think that the amount of time a Laotian girl spends in AYA correlates to a
decrease in her traditional beliefs is the precise moment there’s a
misunderstanding of what culture is. This type of thinking rejects the transnational
development of cultures.
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