Canadian-Born Chinese Children
Canadian-Born Chinese (CBC) children are a fast-growing minority in Canada. When CBC children grow older, most of them struggle between Canadian culture at school, and Chinese culture at home with tension, since there are a lot of differences in these two cultures. For example, in Canadian culture where outgoing personality is valued, CBC children are encouraged to be talkative in school. However, when they have Chinese cultural lesson from home, parents require them to be quite which means mature in Chinese culture. They are confused when the standards of their roles are different.
From positive perspectives, Canadian-Chinese children start to gain respect from people in the community with a diverse cultural background. First, CBC children are using English as first language, and …show more content…
Therefore, those children are confident about talk in English, and express themselves with others in public. Second, some scholars talk about CBC children experience, like Wayson Choy. He describes his experience to new CBC, enabling those young children to make sense of their experience, and be proud of themselves (Wayson Choy, 1999). Wayson Choy (1999) explained “Banana” is a term to describe Chinese people born in North America, because “Banana” means yellow on the outside, while inside is white. It means that “Banana” acts and behaves like white people, and the look of CBC children is yellow people.
In contrast, in Canadian, some Canadian children of Chinese origin still are still suffering some identity viewing concerns in their life (Choy, 1999). The Experience of suggestions from parents about achieving an education in
Canadian-Born Chinese (CBC) children are a fast-growing minority in Canada. When CBC children grow older, most of them struggle between Canadian culture at school, and Chinese culture at home with tension, since there are a lot of differences in these two cultures. For example, in Canadian culture where outgoing personality is valued, CBC children are encouraged to be talkative in school. However, when they have Chinese cultural lesson from home, parents require them to be quite which means mature in Chinese culture. They are confused when the standards of their roles are different.
From positive perspectives, Canadian-Chinese children start to gain respect from people in the community with a diverse cultural background. First, CBC children are using English as first language, and …show more content…
Therefore, those children are confident about talk in English, and express themselves with others in public. Second, some scholars talk about CBC children experience, like Wayson Choy. He describes his experience to new CBC, enabling those young children to make sense of their experience, and be proud of themselves (Wayson Choy, 1999). Wayson Choy (1999) explained “Banana” is a term to describe Chinese people born in North America, because “Banana” means yellow on the outside, while inside is white. It means that “Banana” acts and behaves like white people, and the look of CBC children is yellow people.
In contrast, in Canadian, some Canadian children of Chinese origin still are still suffering some identity viewing concerns in their life (Choy, 1999). The Experience of suggestions from parents about achieving an education in