Is the definition of success boxing in Asian Americans to certain career choices?
That’s the question raised by a study from Jennifer Lee of UC Irvine and Min Zhou of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
The study concludes separating ethnicity from achievement could break down those barriers and make those who do not meet strict measures of success feel less like ethnic outliers, reports
Examiner.com.
Researchers interviewed 81 Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant parents and their children and found success is often equated to straight A’s and graduating from an elite university.
Parents may see creative careers such as writing or acting as too risky and steer their children into more traditional careers like medicine, law and engineering.
Lee and Zhou believe that discrimination is one of the primary reasons parents feel this way. You can read more about that in Examiner.com.
