Family Expectation good or bad?

One major Asian American stereotype is that the parents of Asian American children are extremely strict. With conversing and researching how this stereotype came about with my class, we realized that it is because Asian culture always stresses honor, whether it be for your family or for yourself. They also automatically have an expectance of their child that they will become successful and hardworking. And anything short of that is considered a failure. Some might think that is fine, others dont. However, the argument becomes real when the children commit suicide because of the high expectation from their parents. This was a discussion posted on the internet a couple years ago......

It’s a tragedy: suicides of Asian-American students at Cornell, MIT, UC Berkeley, Cal Tech, and other universities.

Last year, psychologists at UC Davis released research findings that family conflict is a major risk factor for suicide in Asian Americans. An August 19, 2008 Time Magazine article titled, “A Family Suicide Risk in U.S. Asians?” contained the following excerpt:

“Among students…the problem may have to do with family expectations. ‘Although we don’t have good statistics yet, we believe that many Asian American students are prone to feeling depressed over a lack of achievement,’ says [Stanley Sue, a professor of psychology and Asian American studies at UC Davis]. Getting Bs instead of As on a report card may not seem like a great sin to most students, Sue says. But in a culture and family structure where sacrifice by an older generation for the advancement—and education—of its children is a deep-seated tenet, feelings of shame for ‘failing’ can become unbearable, Sue says, noting that this pattern is most evident in families with immigrant parents and among foreign students sent to study at universities by their families.”
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