I’m a child of immigrants myself as my family is from Bangladesh. I was born and raised here. One thing I’ve definitely noticed between the different Asian immigrant communities is that East Asians as a whole tend to integrate with American and Western culture much better than South Asians. When it comes to naming, culture, and lifestyle, East Asians in general seem to try to integrate with they local cultures. On the other hand, South Asians tend to be much more insular and hold on to their culture much more strongly. Many South Asian immigrant families pretty much refuse to integrate and live their lives similarly to how lived back in their home countries, my family included. One issue this causes is culture clash as kids of immigrant parents don’t culturally get along with how their parents want them to live.

我本人也是移民的孩子,我的家人来自孟加拉国。我是在美国这里出生、长大的。可以确定的是,我在不同的亚洲移民社群之间注意到了一件事,那就是东亚人这个整体,往往能比南亚人更好地融入美国文化和西方文化。当涉及到起名字、文化和生活方式时,东亚人在总体上似乎会尽可能地融入他们当地的文化。另一方面,南亚人往往孤僻得多,对自身文化紧抓不放的劲头也比旁人强烈得多。有很多南亚移民家庭几乎是拒绝融入的,他们过生活的方式也和他们在本国的生活方式类似,这也包括我的家庭。由此导致的一个问题就是文化冲突,因为移民父母们的孩子在文化上,无法与他们父母希望他们采用的生活方式相调谐。