Cultural Identity in Kindergarten: A Study of Asian Indian Children in New ...

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Most people are familiar with the concept of filial piety in Asia. It penetrates the Asian culture and permeates the structure of interaction with many families. In Indian culture, it is especially important to decide various aspects of your child's life, from what parents learned to what they married. This strict family culture is being diluted by more Westernistic ideas about families and human relationships, but parents' expectations for children are still great. Together with my friends' traditional parents, I saw demands for this filial piety in an extreme way. They often ask children to learn a particular field (usually a trinity of medicine, law or engineering). They chose extra lessons for children to do. Together with my Indian friends, this is usually Indian classical dance and music. For my East Asian friends, it is always a piano or a violin. In most cases, these parents demand nearly perfect obedience.

For Asian Indians, families are the main factors affecting the development of cultural identity. It is mainly for parents to pass their national identity to their children through the process of cultural or national socialization. Parents imitate and strengthen ethnic behavior of traditions, beliefs, and values ​​related to children, directly or indirectly. We are hoping that children will be honored for their families by socializing for compliance, showing good behavior, maintaining high academic performance, and contributing to happiness of the family. In addition, second-generation immigrants create a self-awareness as India's self identity is defined by families and established by linking individual's surname to religion, social class, language and state of India I will face. Cultural loyalty based on contradiction