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Test 2 Asian Culture Flashcards

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What are the 3 key religions in Asia?

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Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism

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What countries are we referring to when talking about Asian culture?

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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)

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Between the years of 2000-2010 there was a _____% growth in the U.S. Asian population—more than any other racial group

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46%

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Between 2000-2010
Which asian ethnicity had the largest growth?
Which asian ethnicity had the 2nd largest growth?

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Chinese largest, Filipinos second largest

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Between 2000-2010

Among Asian children and youth, more than ____ are children of immigrants

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80%

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T/F Overall average income level in U.S. for asians is the highest

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True, they have the highest median income

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What is a the one big problem Asians face?

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  • “model minority”
  • (They are misrepresented because they are quiet and go under the radar)
  • Needs may go unrecognized, unmet
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Many Indians in the U.S. are _________

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Brahmin

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Describe the characteristics of Brahmin

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-Highest in caste system
-represent wealthy people
-High priority on careers in science, medicine
(Today, they still have the caste system but it is not emphasized; four levels–Brahminis the highest)
-Today, you are born into a caste bit it is not emphasized
-Many Sikh indians in Ca today

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Compare traditional Asian from mainstream

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Traditional Mainstream
-Fatalism -Personal control over envt.,
one’s fate
-Tradition, living with -Change, future orientation
the past
-group welfare -Self actualization, privacy
-mutual interpendence, -Equality, autonomy
inidivuality
-Conformity -Challenge authority
-Encourages continued -Early independence is encouraged
dependence on family
-Parent is authority -Parents give choices indep
-expects submission -Independent thinking
-Unquestioning obedience -Encouraged
-Parents ask CH -Parent asks CHI “what can I do to
“What can you do to help me” help you?

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Asian families believe that

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  • self expression is not important
  • learn by observation, not exploration
  • best–seen and not heard
  • use siblings to help facilitate language if parents aren’t talking to their kids
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If your concerned about a expressive language testing, ______ tests can be a better representation

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receptive

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What are some Asian customs and courtesies?

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  • Hospitality
  • Modesty, humility
  • Respect for elders, teachers, authority figures
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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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Filipino cultural values: what does amor propio mean?

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respect, saving face, so no one is ashamed

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Filipino cultural values: what does pakikisama mean?

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good feelings, getting along, preserving harmony

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How do asians perceive Healthcare and Disabilities?

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  • visible vs. invisible disabilities
  • Disabilities –> fate karma, sins 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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T/F As SLPs we have do not have trouble getting families to acknowledge disabilities and sign IEPs for special education services

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False.

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What can we do to help get parents to sign IEPs?

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  • Have a cultural mediator
  • explain to them that it contributes to the familial success and they’re success will help take care of them when they’re older
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Asian education is highly valued. Asian children attend preschool at a ___________ than other groups

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higher rate.

-in 2011 50% of Asians 25 years and older had a Bachelor’s degree or higher compared with 28.5% of all Americans

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In most American teacher there is (a list in relation to education:

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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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Differences–Asian and American Schools (Stevenson—compared Beijing & Chicago) “Feeling good about being bad”

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-Long days, but lots of recess
(Koreans have been in school 2 years longer than americans)
-3X more American than Asian mothers “very satisfied” with their children’s progress
-U.S. children ranked themselves much higher than Chinese children, even though Chinese children ahead academically in all subjects

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Differences–Asian and American Schools (Stevenson—compared Beijing & Chicago) “Feeling good about being bad”

When asked what they’d wish for american kids vs. chinese response

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  • American CH: $$ & material objects; decreased 10% expressed wishes about education
  • Almost 70% of Chinese children focused wishes on college
  • Confucian beliefs–individual differences in ability de-emphasized
  • EFFORT and DILIGENCE are supreme
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According to Abboud & Kim 2007 what is the role of Asian children in families?

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1) respect elders and obey parents, 2) work hard and do well in school to secure a bright future

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According to Abboud & Kim 2007 what is the role the parents?

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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 often put sports/athletics first; kids are too tired to study

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T/F Many Asian parents unaware of after-school clubs and extracurriculars

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True
we need to help increase awareness
(for kids with expressive language skills this will be a great recommendation)

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Various Asian languages are Tonal. Name three countries that their language is tonal

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Vietnamese, Chinese, Laotian are tonal; each tone represents a meaning change

Vietnamese has 6 tones, for example

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Various Asian languages are Tonal. Name three countries in Asia that ARE NOT tonal

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Khmer, Japanese, Korean not tonal languages

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T/F some countries in Asia are monolingual

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True
E.g. in Laos–Lao; in Japan–Japanese
However, in some countries, many languages spoken

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What are some implications for SLPs in relation to Asian culture ?

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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 with young children and babies; may not be open to early intervention
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Implications for SLPs continued

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  • Teach Asian children “home” and “school” rules for talking
  • Analyze their expressive language skills by evaluating their writing, not speaking
  • Note: if you had a chance to talk to parents I appreciate your culture but for your child to succeed this is what were doing in therapy, so just know were not going against you were just training them to succeed in school
  • Some families dislike “game” format of tx–might prefer structure drill activities
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To, Stokes, Cheung, & T’sou (June 2010 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research) Narrative assessment for Cantonese-speaking children.

Who and what skills did they evaluate?

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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)

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To, Stokes, Cheung, & T’sou (June 2010 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research) Narrative assessment for Cantonese-speaking children.

They found that __________ were strong predictors of later language outcomes.

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Narrative skills strong predictors of later language outcomes

Narrative assessment can be reliably and validly standardized for use with Cantonese-speaking (CS) children

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To, Stokes, Cheung, & T’sou (June 2010 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research) Narrative assessment for Cantonese-speaking children.

They also showed what patterns Cantonese-speaking children?

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Showed limited ability to present as many ideas (they say 5-6 things)

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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T/F Assessment of children’s narrative skills is very promising to differentiating lang. difference from LI

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True

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It is important for us to understand Filipinos

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In 2000, there were 24,516 Filipinos in Sacramento County

In 2012, this had increased to 41,455 (69% increase)

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Former students from this class said Filipinos practices what religion?

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Filipinos predominantly Roman Catholic—enlist help of priest, church members

Family–huge sacrifices to come to U.S. for a better life for Ch

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How many dialects are in the Philippines

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150 dialects

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What are SLP implications in relation to Filipinos ?

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  • Filipinos love personal touch—e.g. pulling out pix of your kids—they feel they can relate to you better
  • When making tx recomms, say “we” not “you”
  • Talk about Ch’s strengths before weaknesses/deficits
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What is Bahala na ? Due to this view in filippino society we should remind parents what?

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  • Bahala na —leave it to God—it’s out of your hands anyway

* Talk about EDUCATION—how tx relates to Ch doing better academically

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T/F Not all Filipinos speak Tagalog

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True ! Be careful  interpreter

41
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How do Filipinos view education?

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Extracurricular activities not emphasized as much; academics much higher priority
•To get into a good college, straight As!
•As a Ch, you are your parents’ future—will take care of them when they get old
•Education is ladder  upward mobility
•Parents push for math, science majors; “safe” careers so Ch will not be poor
•Former student: unacceptable to get a B
•More career freedom for sons than daughters
•Oldest sibling–lots of responsibility

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In Filipino culture it is normal to

•Hide ______ & __________

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Hide tattoos and prison

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T/F Many Filipinos have maids, esp. to help care for Ch

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True, but college credits, creds/degrees in PI may not transfer to the U.S.

44
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Tasha Ketphanh—Laos: (former student in this class) said what?

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  • Grew up in Sacto 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
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Generally, Dr. Roseberry has found what?

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Are generally terrific to work with

Very appreciative

If they understand WHY, they will do carry over

Spring '14 SPHP 143 (12 decks)

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