Intergenerational Cultural Dissonance

Cognitive dissonance The culture between generations is not in harmony Even children who want toys and teens who are not allowed to go out, everyone remembers fighting with their parents. It is normal to want to challenge authority during the growth process. Because young people make their own decisions and help them become individuals. Teenagers rely on very few close friends, and the last people who are convinced are their parents. As a child of Filipino-American and immigrant parents, my rebellious outcome is far more serious than that of my parents born in America.

It is certain that the problem between generations in immigrant families is not new; however, there are so many families coming from culturally discordant Asian and Latin American countries rather than European countries Facts exacerbate this situation. Immigrant guardians accepting values ​​such as collective responsibility and without doubt respecting the authority of many Asian and Latin societies may become increasingly unfamiliar with children who accept American individualism and equalism. Zhou said in Vietnam, there is no self except for the family.

As early as Tanwi Nandini Islam's novel "Bright Lines", dinner is ready, there is a scene of disharmony of the family. Reading it may cause a well-known memory of conflict between generations between parents and children. This is the mismatch moment in the novel exploring the two aspects of family relationship. Modern authors rarely use Edward St. Aubin's skills and style to explain the long-term heritage of exploding families and traumas. For his novel Dumber he reimaged King Lear as a story of an older media bigger with three daughters and raised the number of family dysfunction to the opera level. As a result, familiar rejuvenation story

Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner is an intergenerational novel about adaptation to the North-South culture before and after the North-South culture: their love and loss, their strengths and weaknesses, and their economic and social self. Destroy. Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" is a similar intergenerational novel about family, adapted to war, marriage, the environment, adapted to the various ages and cultures of life.

Over the years, European, Asian, Middle Eastern, and African cultures have emphasized intergenerational life arrangements. Some of them also have a large number of apartment houses. An example that modern people can easily think is a group of elderly parents who live with their children - behind "grandmother" is flat. The times have changed. Once upon a time, a young man left school, found work, got married, and started making family. They were all 25 years old. However, over the age of 130, Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 are more likely to live at home more than any other life for the first time. If you live in Connecticut or New York, you may have noticed that over 40% of the millennium lives with their parents. Over 30% in Australia and up to 48% in Europe, the Millennial generation still lives at home