family and gender

Question 1

“between 2 worlds”

documentary

Answer 1

• generation and culture gap issues
• pressure from parents

Question 2

types of acculturations across generations

Answer 2

• consonant resistance to acculturation
• consonant acculturation
• dissonant acculturattion
• selective acculturation

Question 3

resistence to consonant acculturation

definition

Answer 3

both parents and children are separated and isolated within the ethnic or immigrant community

Question 4

consonant acculturation

definition

Answer 4

both children and parents search for acceptance into mainstream society

Question 5

dissonant acculturation

definition

Answer 5

first gen parents want to maintain ethnic ties while children seek to abandon ethnic community

Question 6

selective acculturation

definition

Answer 6

first gen and children learn the culture and language of the dominant society but still have close ties and respect for the ethnic community
- this is the most healthy intergenationally

Question 7

effects of immigration and acculturation

Answer 7

• acculturative stress
• intergenerational households and filial piety
• language brokering and “parentified children”
• differing or clashing around parenting

Question 8

challenges confronting the immigrant family

Answer 8

• disruption of extended family and friendship networks
• role changes within family
• generation culture gap

Question 9

culture gap

sensitive pressure point

Answer 9

children’s filial responsibility is debt of life owed through obedience/submission to elders

Question 10

work ethic

sensitive pressure point

Answer 10

children work 2x harder than their peers to please their parents, who still don’t think their kids work hard enough

Question 11

multigenerational households

Answer 11

asian americans are more likely than whites to live in multigenerational families

Question 12

prevalence and timing of marriage

Answer 12

more asian americans are married than others in same age range
- already came married
tend to marry later than white people

Question 13

anti-miscegenation laws

Answer 13

• laws that criminalized interracial marriage as a felony
• loving v. virginia (1967) ended the law

Question 14

explanations for intermarriage

Answer 14

• individual choice: people love who they love
• marriage markets: depends on how many co-ethnics are around
• marital assimilation: once a group is marrying out, there’s assimilation
• hypergamy theory: tendency for women to marry “up”
• stereotype effect: not a lot of asian american leading roles –> hard for people to them as attractive

Question 15

intersectional approach

Answer 15

asian american women construct their gender in both ethnic immigrant cultural norms and those of the euro-centric mainstream

Question 16

pressures for asian american women

Answer 16

• confucian moral code: male superiority, authority, and power over women in family and social relations, has influences the patriarchal systems of korea and vietnam
• shift in gender arrangements (wives having to work + come home and cook afterwards)

Question 17

women

Answer 17

patriarchy reinforces male privilege by prescribing bounded roles for women, often in domestic-related duties
- son preference over daughters

Question 18

media images of asian american women

Answer 18

• lotus blossom: chastitity, powerless, sexual availability
• dragon lady: decieving, conniving, utilizing sexuality for advantage
• hyper-sexualization in subservient roles

Question 19

domestic violence

Answer 19

need more raising of awareness and ending silence around it
- 42% of asian americans know an abused woman
- up to 55% of AAPI experience some sort of physical/sexual violence in lifetime

Question 20

barriers to domestic violence

five barriers

Answer 20

• victim blaming
• financial
• language barrier
• cultural/religious expectations
• immigration status
  can’t be addressed by traditional approaches

Question 21

conceptions of beauty

Answer 21

trying to fit into western notions of beauty
sign of internalizing gener ideology that validates monetary and time investment

Question 22

internalized racism

definition

Answer 22

believing stereotypes and myths about their own race

Question 23

internalized sexism

Answer 23

believing stereotypes and myths about their own sex
- personal level → results in low self-esteem, colorism, stereotyping, self-hatred
- structural level → results in decision making, resources, standard, naming the problem

Question 24

depression and suicide

Answer 24

• suicide is 3rd leading cause of death among young americans ages 15-24
• asian american women have highest rate of depressive symptoms of all racial groups