The meanings of home not only refer to a place where can sleep and eat, but a place to carry the joys and angers, the place where full of love, responsibilities, obligations. Finding a home is a human destiny in a sense. For Asian Americans, a home can be a small family built up by the people they loved, also can be a community established by the entire Asian American. For APA LGBT, the home is not always make they feel peace of mind. It is easy for ordinary people to have access to the support and understanding, recognition, and care of the family, friends, and ethnic groups, but is hard for APA LGBT. “Identity” is a determination of individual’s self-identity, and based on the inter-ethnic communication. According to Alice Hom, “Stories
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The family relationship can also be extended to friends, father and son, couples, brothers, relatives. Under the influence of Confucian collective attention, the relationship between personal or family and friends, relatives, neighbors, colleagues, and etc. is relatively close. For Asian parents with homosexual children, they do not know how face their friends or relatives to talk about these things due to close social relations in ethnic community. Most of them choose to be silence. according to Alice, “for some parents having a lesbian or gay child bring up the issue of their status and reputation in the community and family network. Question such as: what is society going to think of me? Will the neighbors know and will it reflect upon us? Did they raise a band child?” This series of questions they are going to face shows that Asian parents really care about how others see themselves, how to they treat homosexual children, which is the expression of collectivism. Some of them are always unable to understand their children, but some people choose to accept and tolerate. They stand with the children, trying to change the minds of more people and help people who are still in the midst of …show more content…
In the history of Asian immigrants, Asian Americans have been marginalized by the mainstream American society, and they are relatively marginalized ethnic minorities compare to other minorities due to distinct cultures, languages and living habits and etc. Asian American have been the most difficult integrate into the mainstream American society of ethnic minorities. The existence of Asian LGBT is undoubtedly add another discriminatory label to this community except racial discriminations. Before 1994, there was no Asian face appear in white dominated American LGBT community. With the changing of status of Asian American, Asian lesbian and gay slowly appeared in people’s field of vision. In 1994, California passed a vote on the establishment of citizenship screening system in order to prevent illegal immigrants occupy American citizen’s public welfare. The adoption of this proposal was a blow to Asian immigrants, and the impact of Asian LGBT community was even more evident. Many lesbian and gay dare not talked about their sexual orientation on any public occasion, because the white American’s homophobia was a hidden danger to their safety. Some of lesbian and gay even married the opposite sex to avoid the American authorities to question their identity and unconventional investigations and
The family relationship can also be extended to friends, father and son, couples, brothers, relatives. Under the influence of Confucian collective attention, the relationship between personal or family and friends, relatives, neighbors, colleagues, and etc. is relatively close. For Asian parents with homosexual children, they do not know how face their friends or relatives to talk about these things due to close social relations in ethnic community. Most of them choose to be silence. according to Alice, “for some parents having a lesbian or gay child bring up the issue of their status and reputation in the community and family network. Question such as: what is society going to think of me? Will the neighbors know and will it reflect upon us? Did they raise a band child?” This series of questions they are going to face shows that Asian parents really care about how others see themselves, how to they treat homosexual children, which is the expression of collectivism. Some of them are always unable to understand their children, but some people choose to accept and tolerate. They stand with the children, trying to change the minds of more people and help people who are still in the midst of …show more content…
In the history of Asian immigrants, Asian Americans have been marginalized by the mainstream American society, and they are relatively marginalized ethnic minorities compare to other minorities due to distinct cultures, languages and living habits and etc. Asian American have been the most difficult integrate into the mainstream American society of ethnic minorities. The existence of Asian LGBT is undoubtedly add another discriminatory label to this community except racial discriminations. Before 1994, there was no Asian face appear in white dominated American LGBT community. With the changing of status of Asian American, Asian lesbian and gay slowly appeared in people’s field of vision. In 1994, California passed a vote on the establishment of citizenship screening system in order to prevent illegal immigrants occupy American citizen’s public welfare. The adoption of this proposal was a blow to Asian immigrants, and the impact of Asian LGBT community was even more evident. Many lesbian and gay dare not talked about their sexual orientation on any public occasion, because the white American’s homophobia was a hidden danger to their safety. Some of lesbian and gay even married the opposite sex to avoid the American authorities to question their identity and unconventional investigations and