2/25/14-Asian Students Flashcards

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Asian Studies: What countries are in East Asia?

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Japan

Korea

China

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Asian Studies: What countries are in Southeast Asia?

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Philippines

Laos

Cambodia

Thailand

Indonesia

Singapore

Burma

Malaysia

Vietnam

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Asian Studies: What countries are in South Asia?

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Pakistan

India

Sri Lanka

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Asian Studies: Between the years 2000 - 2010 what percentage of growth in the US were of Asian population?

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  • 46%

- This is more than any other racial group

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Asian Studies: Who is the largest growing group?

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  • Chinese
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Asian Studies: Who is the second largest group?

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Filipinos

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Asian Studies: Among Asian children & youth, more than what percent are children of immigrants?

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  • 80%
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Asian Studies: T/F: Overall average income level in US is highest among Asians?

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True

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Asian Studies: The median income for what group was $92,418 in 2011?

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Asian Indians

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Asian Studies:What are two problems for Asians?

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  • “Model minority”

- Needs may go unrecognized, unmet

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Asian Studies: Describe “Brahmin”

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  • Highest in the caste
  • Represent wealthy people
  • High priority on careers in science, medicine
  • Today, you are born into a caste but it is not emphasized
  • Many Sikh Indians in CA today
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Asian Studies: If Traditional Asian culture believes in Fatalism, what does the mainstream culture believe?

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  • Personal control over environment and one’s fate
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Asian Studies: If mainstream culture believes in change, and future orientation what does Traditional Asian culture believe?

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  • Tradition

- Living with the past

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Asian Studies: If Traditional Asian culture believes in group welfare, what does mainstream culture believe in?

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  • Self actualization

- Privacy

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Asian Studies: If Traditional Asian culture believes in mutual interdependence autonomy, what does mainstream culture believe in?

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  • Independence

- Individualism

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Asian Studies: If mainstream culture believes in equality, status, determined by achievement what does Traditional Asian culture believe?

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  • Hierarchy

- Rigid role status

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Asian Studies: If mainstream culture believes in challenge authority what does Traditional Asian culture believe?

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Conformity

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Asian Studies: If Traditional Asian culture believes in encouraging continued dependence on family, what does mainstream culture believe in?

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Early independence encouraged

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Asian Studies:If Traditional Asian culture believes in parent authority; expects submission; unquestioning obedience, what does mainstream culture believe in?

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  • Parents gives choices

- independent thinking encouraged

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Asian Studies: If mainstream culture believes in parents ask children, “what can I do to help you?” what does Traditional Asian culture ask?

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“How can you help me?”

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Asian Studies: What do many Asian families believe in (in contrast to traditional U.S. families)?

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  • Self expression not important
  • Learn by observation, not exploration
  • Best seen not heard
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Asian Studies: T/F: Asians may be low in expressive language?

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True

  • This is when we talked about how children aren’t encouraged to talk out of turn or how they aren’t talked to
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Asian Studies: What are some Asian Customs, courtesies, and values?

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  • Hospitality
  • Modesty, humility
  • Respect for elders, teachers, authority figures
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Asian Studies: What are Asian communication styles?

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Formal rules of communication propriety based on relative status of interlocutors

May be considered appropriate to ask personal questions

Indirectness often the norm re: touchy subjects

Some Asians may smile or laugh when embarrassed or angry

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What are key Filipino cultural values?

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Amor prorio–respect–saving face so no one is ashamed

Pakikisama–good feelings–getting along–preserving harmony

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Asian Studies: How do they view disabilities?

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It is Fate, karma, sins committed by ancestors

Families may be ashamed to bring a child for help is his/her disability represents sins committed by parents/ancestors

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Asian Studies: T/F: We may have trouble getting families to acknowledge disabilities and sign IEPs for special education services

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True

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Asian Studies: How is education viewed?

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  • Hugely valued
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Asian Studies: In 2011, What percent of Asians that were 25 yrs. and older had a Bachelor’s degree or higher compared with 28.5% of all Americans

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50%

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Asian Studies: T/F: Asian children attend preschool at a higher rate than other groups

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True.

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Asian Studies: In most Asian countries how do they views the schools/teachers?

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Great respect for teachers

Heavy reliance on rote learning, memorization

Teachers are very authoritarian

Class is formal; teachers lecture

Teachers don’t admit mistakes

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Asian Studies: Name the difference within the Asian school in comparison to American schools

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  • Long days, but lots of recess
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Asian Studies: T/F: U.S. ch ranked themselves much higher than Chinese ch, even though Chinese ch ahead academically in all subjects

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True

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Asian Studies: T/F:

- 3x more American mothers than Asian mothers stated they were “very satisfied” w/their child’s progress

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True.

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Asian Studies: What did American children say they wished for?

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American ch: $$ & material objects; less than 10% expressed wishes about education

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Asian Studies: What did Asian children say they wished for?

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Almost 70% of Chinese ch focused wishes on college

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Asian Studies: T/F: Confucian beliefs are the individual differences in ability to de-emphasize

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True

38
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Asian Studies: T/F: EFFORT & DILIGENCE are supreme –> (I am assuming within the Asian culture?)

A

True

39
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Asian Studies: Describe the study by Abboud & Kim 2007 (cited in the text)

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  • Role of Asian children in families:
    1) respect elders and obey parents
    2) work hard and do well in school to secure a bright future
  • Many Asian parents work hard all day and morph into educators at night
  • Asian parents put academics first, while other parents often put sports/athletics first

Many Asian parents unaware of after-school clubs and extracurriculars

We want to help increase awareness

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Asian Studies: What are some Asian language considerations?

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  • Many languages have numerous dialects
41
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Asian Studies: What languages are tonal?

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—each tone represents a meaning change

Vietnamese

Chinese

Laotian are tonal

Vietnamese has 6 tones, for example

42
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Asian Studies: What languages are NOT tonal?

A

Khmer

Japanese

Korean

43
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Asian Studies: T/F: Vietnamese has 6 tones?

A

True

44
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Asian Studies: Linguistically, what countries are monolingual?

A
  • Loas –> Lao

- Japan –> Japanese

45
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Asian Studies: What are the implications for professionals?

A

Address the husband first because the wife is subordinate

It may be disgraceful for the family to admit to or discuss a child’s disability = Intervention may be rejected

Some families do not believe that it is important to talk with young children/babies; may not be open to early intervention

Teach Asian ch “home” & “school” rules for talking

Analyze their expressive languages skills by evaluating their writing, not speaking (quiet in class)

46
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Asian Studies: Describe the study done by To, Stokes, Cheung, & T’sou Narrative assessment for Cantonese-speaking children.

A

Narrative skills strong predictors of later language outcomes

This study attempted to create some norms for evaluating narrative skills of Cantonese-speaking children

Studied typically-developing subjects and those with specific language impairment (SLI)

47
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Asian Studies: In the study Narrative assessment for Cantonese- speaking children, what did the researchers find?

A

Narrative assessment can be reliability and validity standardized for use w/ Cantonese-speaking (CS) ch

CS ch w/ SLI had great difficulty using appropriate syntactic complexity when telling stories in Cantonese

Showed limited ability to present as many ideas

Use nonspecific terms (i.e. “the girl did the leg of the cat” rather than “the girl bandaged the leg of the cat”)

48
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Asian Studies: T/F: We know that assessment of children’s narrative skills is very promising; this will help us differentiate between a language difference from LI?

A

True

49
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When talking about Filipino’s: In 2000, there were 24,516 Filipinos in what county?

A

Sacramento

50
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Asian Studies: T/F: In 2012, the number of Filipino’s had decreased?

A

False; It had increased to 41,455 (69% increase)

51
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T/F: Filipinos are predominantly Roman Catholic?

A

True; They enlist help of priest, church members

52
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T/F: Filipino Family makes huge sacrifices to come to U.S. for a better life for their children

A

True

53
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How many dialects are used by Filipinos?

A

150

54
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Why do Filipino’s love personal touch?

A

Because then they can feel they can relate to you (i.e. pulling out a photo of your kids)

55
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T/F: When making treatment recommendations, say, “you” not “we”

A

FALSE!!!

56
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T/F: We should never talk about the child’s strengths before weaknesses?

A

FALSE

57
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Filipino culture: What does Bahala na mean?

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Leave it to God –> It’s out of your hands anyway

58
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Filipino culture: T/F: Talk about EDUCATION & how treatment relates to their child doing better academically?

A

True

59
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Filipino culture: Since extracurricular activities are not emphasized as much what is a much higher priority?

A

academics

60
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As a Filipino child, you are your parents’ future, what does this mean?

A

You will take care of them when they get old

61
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Why do Filipino parents push for math or science majors?

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B/c they are “safe” careers so Ch will not be poor

62
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Filipino culture: T/F: There is more career freedom for sons than daughters?

A

True.

63
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Talk about Tasha Ketphanh—Laos: (former student in this class)

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Grew up in Sac on welfare

Education not important—you’re just going to work in rice fields

Laotians ↑st prison population of Asians

Don’t ever look an adult in the face

Don’t touch people’s heads

White string bracelet fends off bad spirits

Jewelry is big—bling scares away ghosts

In Laos, people with physical deformities live on the outskirts of the city—afraid they’ll scare Ch

Boys taken as soldiers—10 years old

64
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T/F: Asians are never terrific to work with and are not appreciative?

A

false.

They are terrific and appreciative

65
Q

Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

Here are 2 piece of toast

A

Difference

66
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Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

He going home now

A

Difference

67
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Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

I have Phuong pencul

A

Difference

68
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Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

We cook dinner yesterday

A

Difference

69
Q

Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

He didn’t went by himself

A

Difference

70
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Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

They don’t have no books

A

Difference

71
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Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

I messed up it

A

Difference

72
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Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

You are going now?

A

Difference

73
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Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

She is in home

A

Difference

74
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Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

She husband is coming

A

Difference

75
Q

Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

Boy is sick

A

Difference

76
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Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

This book is gooder than that book

A

Difference

77
Q

Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

You _____ I going to the beach

A

Difference

78
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Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

She ____ not take it

A

Difference

79
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Asian Culture: Is this a difference or disorder?

She have no money

A

Difference

80
Q

Asian Culture: T/F: This is a disorder?

ste for step OR ro for robe

A

False, it is a difference

81
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Asian Culture: T/F: this is a difference?

efunt for elephant

A

true

82
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Asian Culture: T/F: This is a disorder?

beece for bees OR pick for pig

A

False, it is a difference

83
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Asian culture: T/F: This is a difference?

lize for rise

A

True

84
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Asian culture: T/F: This is a disorder?

tone for torn

A

false, it is a difference

85
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Asian culture: T/F: words sound choppy to Americans?

A

True because there is a reduction of vowel length in words

86
Q

Asian culture: T/F: This is a difference?

tin for thin OR doze for those

A

true

87
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Asian culture: T/F: This is a disorder?

bulack for black OR wooduh for wood

A

false it is a difference

88
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Asian culture: T/F: This is a difference?

sheep for cheap

A

true

89
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Asian culture: T/F: This is a disorder?

block for black OR shock for shack

A

false it is a difference

90
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Asian culture: T/F: This is a difference?

base for vase

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true

91
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Asian culture: T/F: This is a disorder?

vork for work

A

false it is a difference