Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Children of Immigrants Pitching In

One of my favorite bloggers in Southern California has posed a question to all children of immigrants, whether Mexican, Vietnamese or Sudanese:

What are the expectations within your family? Does the culture you grew up in play a role in your pitching in? How much of this is determined by your own personal beliefs?

Furthermore, how much will you pitch in to continue filling in the gaps that your parents have filled for their families in their respective countries?

From what I've compared, many of the immigrant cultures that live in the U.S. are collectivist groups within an individualistic society. While American culture might not understand the "unreasonable" efforts made to help out family, many of the immigrant cultures don't understand the "abandonment" that Americans embrace.

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