ASA 2 - Section 3
22 November 2015
In the reading "Teaching Justice and Living Peace", Boyung Lee talks a lot of about the Asian American community and how they deal with homosexuality. It can be seen that some Asian Americans try to fit in with social norms, or try to Americanize, thus, it is obvious that to Asian American families, homosexuality is not the norm, and should therefore be hidden and kept a secret. I think Asian Americans find it shaming that their children are not what their parents had expected from them- and this goes along with Asian American parent being too domineering and superior in the children's lives; always molding their children the way they want them to become. Thus, I agree with Boyung in his writing about the shame parents try to hide. They accept their racial child but not their homosexual child. This could also be due to ancestral traditions. Having set marriages between men and women, and having a long history of patriarchal families- it really is against "norms" to have a heterosexual relationship now in accordance to some Asian American families. However, if gay marriage is legal now, and many white heterosexual relationships are coming out, would that make heterosexualism a "social norm" and change the views of shaming to Asian American parents?
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