Asian Flashcards

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Intro and background: Origins

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  • East Asia: (Japan, Korea, china)
  • Southeast Asia: (philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Malaysia)
  • South Asia: (pakistan, India, Sri Lanka)
  • Key Religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism
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Pew Research Center 2017

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-asians immigrants projected to become the largest foreign-born group in the US by 2055

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Many Indians in the U.S. are Brahmin

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  • highest in caste system
  • represent wealth people
  • high priority on career in science, medicine
  • many sikh indians in CA today (darker skinned indians may experience discrimination from lighter-skinned indians - colorism)
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Former student Harpeet

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  • lighter- skinned indians in middle school would not let her associate with them
  • bullied because she is darker and of a lower caste
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Sonam R., 2016

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  • there is NO intermarriage between castes

- girls are encouraged to stay home

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contrasting beliefs, values, and practices

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TRADITIONAL Asian
-fatalism 
-tradition, living with the past
MAINSTREAM
-personal control over environment,one's fate
-change, future orientation
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Traditional vs mainstream

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TRADITIONAL Asian
-group welfare
-mutual interdependence
-hierarchy, Rigid role status
-conformity
MAINSTREAM
-self-actualization, privacy 
-independence, indiv. autonomy
-equality, status determined by achievement 
-challenge authority
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Traditional vs mainstream (2)

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TRADITIONAL
-encourages continued dependence on family (older sibs HELP)
-parent authority; expects submission, unquestioning obedience
-parents ask ch, “what can you do to help me?”
MAINSTREAM
-early independence encouraged
-parent gives choices independent thinking encouraged
-parents as ch “what can I do to help you?”

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For children, many asian families believe (in contrast to traditional U.S. families)

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  • self expression not important
  • learn by observation, not exploration
  • best – seen and not heard
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Having children is important – fidela B., 2016, Laotian

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  • under a lot of pressure to get married (shes around 25)

- mom: “your eggs are dying”

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customs, courtesies, values

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  • hospitality
  • respect for elders, teachers, authority figures
  • modesty, humility
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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 subject
  • some Asians may smile or laugh when embarrassed or angry
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For example, key Filipino cultural values

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  • amor propio: respect– saving face so no one is ashamed

- Pakikisama: good feelings – getting along- preserving harmony

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health care and disabilities

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  • visible vs. invisible disabilities
  • disabilities –> fate, karma, sin committed by ancestors
  • families may be ashamed to bring a child for help if his/her disability represents sins committed by parents/ancestors
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As SLPs

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-we may have trouble getting families to acknowledge disabilities and sign IEPs for special education services

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Asian Education

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  • hugely valued

- asian children attend preschool at a higher rate than other groups

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California educator – Asians in the U.S. have the highest rates of

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  • college degree attainment
  • # of persons w/ advanced degrees
  • working in highly skilled occupation (outperform whites)
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However, in CA (california educator continued)

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  • 40% of Hmong, 38% of Laotians, and 35% of cambodians dont complete high school
  • due to poverty
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In most Asian countries, there is:

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  • great respect for teacher
  • heavy reliance on rote learning, memorization
  • teachers are very authoritarian
  • class is formal; teachers lecture
  • teachers dont admit mistakes
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Differences – Asian and American Schools (stevenson, compared Beijing and chicago)

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  • long days, but lots of recess (in Asian schools)
  • 3x more american than asian mothers “very satisfied” w/ their ch’s progress
  • U.S. ch ranked themselves much higher than chinese ch., even though Chinese ch ahead academically in all subjects
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When asked what they’d wish for

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  • american ch: $$ and material objects; below 10% expressed wished about education
  • almost 70% of chinese ch focused wished on college
  • Confucian beliefs -individual differences in ability de-emphasized
  • EFFORT and DILIGENCE are supreme
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Abboud and kim

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  • role of asian children in families : 1) respect elder 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 – that is their role
  • asian parents put academics first, while other parents put sports/ athletics first; kids are too tired to study
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many asian

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  • parents unaware of after school clubs and extracurricular

- help increase awareness

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asian langugae considerations: Introduction

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-many languages have numerous dialects

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Some langugaes are tonal

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  • khmer (cambodia), Japanese, korean not tonal languages
  • vietnamese, chinese, laotian are tonal; each tone represents a meaning change
  • vietnamese has 6 tones for example
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Linguistically

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  • some countires are monolingual
  • e.g., in laos – lao; japan – japanese
  • however in some countries many lang
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implication for professionals

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  • we may need to 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 ;entire family lineage disgraced – intervention may be rejected
  • some families do not believe that it is important to talk w/ young children and babies; may not be open to early intervention
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Teach asian

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  • home and school rules for talking
  • amalyze expressive lang skills be evaluating writing, not speaking (quiet in class)
  • some families dislike “game: format of Tx – prefer structured drill activities
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To, Stokes, Cheung, & T’sou (journal of speech, language and hearing research) narrative assessment for cantonese- speaking children

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  • 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
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Researchers found that

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  • narrative assessment can be reliable and validly standardized for use w/ catonese-speaking ch
  • CS Ch w/ SLI: great difficulty using appropriate syntactic complexity when telling stories in Cantonese
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These children also

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  • showed limited ability to present as many ideas

- Used nonspecific terms (e.g., “the girl did the leg of the cat” rather than “the girl bandaged the leg of the cat”)

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So we know that

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-assessment of children’s narrative skills is very promising –> differentiating lang difference from LI

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It is important for us to understand Filipinos

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  • in 2000 there were 24,516 Filipinos in Sac county

- in recent years, this has increased to 41,455 (69% increase)

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Former students from class

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  • filipinos predominatly roman catholic- enlist help of priest, church member
  • family – huge sacrifices to come to U.S. for a better life ch
  • 150 dialects
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filipinos love

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  • personal touch– e.g., pulling out pics of your kids can relate to you better
  • when making treatment recommendation, say “we” not “you”
  • talk about ch’s strength before weaknesses/deficits
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Bahala na

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  • leave it to god- its out of your hands anyway
  • talk about education - how treatment related to ch doing better academically
  • not all filipinos speak taglog! be careful –> interpreter
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extracurricular activities

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  • not emphasized; academics much higher priority

- as a ch, you are your parents future – takes care of them in old age

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parents push…

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  • for math, science, majors; “safe” careers so ch will not be poor
  • more career freedom for sons than daughters
  • oldest sibling - lots of responsibility
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hide

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  • tattoos -prison
  • many filipinos have maids,esp. to help care for ch.
  • college credits, creds/degrees may not transfer over to U.S
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Tasha Ketphanh –Laos : former student

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  • grew in sacto on welfare
  • education not important – youre just going to work in rice fields
  • laotians increased prison population of asians
  • dont ever look an adult in the face
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tasha (continued)

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  • dont touch peoples heads
  • white string bracelet fends off bad spirit
  • jewelry is big -bling scares away ghosts
  • in laos people with physical disabilities live on the outskirts of the city – afraid theyll scare ch
  • boys taken as soldiers – 10 years
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I have found that asians

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  • are generally terrific to work with
  • very appreciative
  • if they understand why they will do carry over