Influence of the social and cultural context on identity formation of Vietnamese adolescents living in North America
Abstract
The formative influence of social and cultural context is very important for development of identity. The specific identity development of Vietnamese adolescents with immigrant background includes the balancing of their eastern culture heritage and western culture of the society of settlement. Results from USA and Canada shows that family and community provide strong pressure to these adolescents to keep eastern values. It can be source of parent-child conflicts, lower self-esteem, lower exploration and foreclosure of identity. On the other side, this pressure represents positive factor for development of ethnic identity and for achieving high score on academic orientation. The effect of peers and school to the development of identity of this group is poorly known. In the Czech Republic, second generation of Vietnamese immigrants is growing up. It is important to understand to specifics of development of identity to support their psychosocial adaptation in a new home country. The review summarizes impact of social and cultural context to the development of identity of Vietnamese adolescents in the USA and Canada. The data from North America are comparable with limits to the situation in the Czech Republic.
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Keywords
Vietnamese adolescents, immigrants, identity development, social and cultural contextLiterature
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