Understanding intergenerational, cross-cultural conflict
Understanding intergenerational, cross-cultural conflict
Due to the increasing immigration from China to Australia, the phenomenon accompanies with a series of social problems, in this essay, the author will combine previous research and theoretical materials to explore one of the problems—the intergenerational conflicts in Chinese immigration family in Australia. The whole essay can be finished with responds of four questions, which includes how the conflicts emerge; what problems the conflicts cause; how to address the conflicts and how to healing the damage the conflicts have caused to families. As for the first one, the author gives answer from the cultural aspect; at the same time, according to Shapiro (1977), different language circumstances put impact on people’s cognitive systems by delivering different values, briefs and attitudes to them, the author suggests the point of view from language aspect. Then the second question will be responded with the solutions based on the answer of the first question. Following that, some researches provide the way of dealing with the conflicts. Eventually, the author will offer some healing ways for the families suffering from conflicts. Therefore, the essay will be divided into three sections---the introduction, the analysis and discussion and the conclusion.
In terms of the widely-exist intergenerational conflict in Chinese Australian families, the author tends to agree with the point of view that the different cultural backgrounds of two generations lead to the intergenerational conflict under the cross-cultural situation. Specifically, this sort of conflict can be contributed to two factors. First of all, compared with the cultural traits in Australia, the high-context, collectivistic characteristics and enormous authority gap (Hall, 1976) of Chinese culture provide people living the two countries with different values. When the two value systems emerge in one family, there would be a clash. According to Chen
Due to the increasing immigration from China to Australia, the phenomenon accompanies with a series of social problems, in this essay, the author will combine previous research and theoretical materials to explore one of the problems—the intergenerational conflicts in Chinese immigration family in Australia. The whole essay can be finished with responds of four questions, which includes how the conflicts emerge; what problems the conflicts cause; how to address the conflicts and how to healing the damage the conflicts have caused to families. As for the first one, the author gives answer from the cultural aspect; at the same time, according to Shapiro (1977), different language circumstances put impact on people’s cognitive systems by delivering different values, briefs and attitudes to them, the author suggests the point of view from language aspect. Then the second question will be responded with the solutions based on the answer of the first question. Following that, some researches provide the way of dealing with the conflicts. Eventually, the author will offer some healing ways for the families suffering from conflicts. Therefore, the essay will be divided into three sections---the introduction, the analysis and discussion and the conclusion.
In terms of the widely-exist intergenerational conflict in Chinese Australian families, the author tends to agree with the point of view that the different cultural backgrounds of two generations lead to the intergenerational conflict under the cross-cultural situation. Specifically, this sort of conflict can be contributed to two factors. First of all, compared with the cultural traits in Australia, the high-context, collectivistic characteristics and enormous authority gap (Hall, 1976) of Chinese culture provide people living the two countries with different values. When the two value systems emerge in one family, there would be a clash. According to Chen
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