The Asian American community, as it is largely composed of immigrants, many recent immigrants, is often attested to be divided along generational lines. This is connoted with cultural divisions as well — the younger generation is generally seen as more Western, or Americanized, while the older generations are seen as more Eastern. Our SAPSA aims to examine the real causes of this divide and its effects on families and interpersonal relationships.
Our intended audience are college students, particularly Asian American college students who have experience with this divide and might not realize it yet. Through our SAPSA project, we hope to make them aware of this conflict in their lives and how it may be affecting them and their relationships with their families. We hope that taking the information we’ve presented, they will be able to better navigate these intergenerational connections and their everyday lives, in relation to their identity.
In doing research about different facets of this cultural and intergenerational divide, we were able to find much proof for direct and indirect causes of conflict that are largely applicable to the overall Asian American community, according to statistics.
One big challenge was that of the constraint of time. If we could, we would have put in more statistics and discussed more specific examples of the intergenerational divide.
Another direction this project could have gone is if we made our intended audience the elder generations instead, addressing the issues to make our presentation presentable to the people on the other side of the divide.
We hope that, with the creation of our SAPSA, Asian Americans could be more cognizant of the sensitivities on both sides of the divide and learn not to blame the other side, but to place the responsibility on the forces deepening the divide itself.
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