Analysis of American Born Asians & Asian Internationals: Honor, Success, and Identity

Indianapolis, IN

Today, we live in a rapidly changing global society where a middle class arising in Asia directly affects the rest of the World. Foreign Internationals arriving in the U.S. as first generation immigrants are attending American high schools and colleges, while Chinese businesses continue to invest in American properties. It is becoming increasingly important to understand the ideology and motivations of this newly arriving population. Moreover, America has been home to Asians of various kinds for generations, many of which cannot speak their ethnicity's language and have little cultural understanding of the countries they originated from. In which ways do Asian Americans differ from Foreign Internationals today? How do the two groups form social groups? What are the differences and similarities in their values? Conducting interviews with Asian Americans and Asian Internationals, I argue that Asian Americans have adopted a cultural identity that has evolved from their International counterparts. Through the discussion of Honor, Success, and Identity, can the evolution of the American Asian give us insights into this new generation of naturalizing Asian Internationals?