Is the data being compared to data from non-immigrant families?
One of the things that’s been important to me in this research, and something I find continuously fascinating, is the tremendous amount of diversity that exists within a group of Chinese immigrants. When you lump them together as a group and compare them to a non-immigrant sample, you lose all that diversity and you start to generalize and stereotype more. It leads you to assume that everyone of Chinese heritage is the same, which is not at all what we have found. You found that one of the parents’ top child-rearing goals was to raise strong-minded and independent children. Many people assume that China is a “collectivist” culture where things like independence are not as important. That straw man makes me nuts—that there are collectivist cultures and individualistic cultures. Every culture has some of each. Chinese parents are trying to foster and instill independence in their children, as well as good relations. These two things are not mutually exclusive. One way to honor the family
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