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Emotional abuse of immigrant children by their immigrant parents probably contributes a lot to to why the kids hate their ancestral language(s). (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Source: Me.

I'm trying to hang on Cantonese and Mandarin as much as possible, but it's so fucking hard because Cantonese is so triggering of my traumatic memories, and Mandarin just reminds of the CCP. Like... in my mind its so hard to separate langage from parents or a regime.

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[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you think emotional abuse is more common from immigrant parents? I feel like I see a lot of comments about the stress and pressure that immigrant parents put on their kids, but it's not something I know anything about.

If so, why do you think it's like that? Is it just that families that immigrant are often in difficult financial situations, without lots of social support so the parents are super stressed? Or that the kinds of people who are willing to immigrate are aspirational and so demand a lot of their children? Or is partly that their way if parenting would be normal back where they grew up, but for its difficult for their kids growing up in a society with different standards and expectations around childhood?

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think people that want to leave their country are probably from countries that are less developed in terms of like civics. Like Human Rights, democracy, equality, disability rights, open-minded ness. So these are generally more conservative.

The less developed the civics are, less less desirable it is to live there, thus the more desirable it it to leave that country.

So... conservative families... need say more?

Statistically, they are very strict and have an authoritarian household system.

Literally, like every Asian classmate I've met, like not just East Asia, but also like Southeast Asia and South Asia, by the way they all describe it, it all sounds similar in terms of authoritarianism of their household.