The Construction of the Success Frame by Second-Generation Chinese Parents; a Cross-National Comparison

The second-generation Chinese were raised by immigrant parents who had high academic expectations and socialized them with cultural values such as zeal, collectivism, and filial piety to achieve the goals they set for them. They lived in ethnic communities that supported these notions, and befriended peers whose notion of success was equally high, causing the second-generation to compare themselves to people with exceptionally high academic standards. These dynamics are the labeled the `success frame'(Lee and Zhou 2014) and form the core of this dissertation. As the second-generation got older... Mehr ...