Cultural Diversity

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Cultural Diversity
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Filial Piety

• Set of moral principles
• reverence toward nations leaders
• respect elders, parents and parental desires
• Family name important.
• Children are very obedient.

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Traditional Chinese Family

• Influenced by Confucids ideas
• Obligation and responsibility toward family

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Family pattern

• Extended family
• Patriarchal
• Patrilocal

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Family Types

• Four generation families - includes aunts and
  uncle (country)
• Two generation families - includes grandparents,
  parents and child (city)

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Family Type

• Parents and Child - city
• Couple only - big cities, new, mainly highly
  educated people

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Marriage

• Usually arranged marriages before 1949
• Some rural families still do this.
• Similar family background, religion and education
  is important.

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Marriage Laws

• 1950 - abolished arranged marriages
• 1981 - encouraged marriage at later age

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Cultural Revolution

• 1966-1976 (death of Mao)
• Tong Shon Ping makes more open culture
• children and parents more equal
• Close family loyalties, difficult to maintain
• Youth sent to rural

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Increasing Urbanization

• 1979 - greater focus on individual and
  consumerism
• Opened up to outside world - intermarriages

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Marriage

• Must apply to leaders/ boss where you work
• Marriage class and exam
• Physical exam (Health Certificate)
• Age certificate
• Wedding date is set according to traditional
  calendar for good luck.

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Having a child

• Application, go to class and take exam
• Pledge to have only one child
• Pay money
• Get birth control from hospital and get money back

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Parent - Child Relationship

• Respect parents, teachers, and elders
• children responsible for caring for parents

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Changes in Parental Practices

• Over-protectiveness
• Parents give lots of attention
• Remedies

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One -Child Advantages

• Higher intellect and more imaginative
• Broader interests
• Better in language
• More time with parents
• Healthier and taller

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Decisions

• Consider impact on others first.
• Government, family and others

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Couple

• child centered family, not couple centered

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Four additional themes

• Respect
• Unity
• Traditional culture
• Expanded sense of family

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Diversity Video

• Ask yourself questions
• Ask other people questions
• Observe other cultures
• Make own attitudes known
• Presume good intentions

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Ethnocentrism
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