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This study of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean immigrant college students investigated the similarities and differences in informal heritage cultural education in the United States. To research the various ways in which Asian Americans are informally educated about their cultural heritage in America, one-on-one in-depth interviews were conducted to understand the interactions of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans in terms of Asian cultural values. On the basis of these results, most of the three groups of Asian Americans were taught their heritage culture informally by their families, their larger heritage communities, the media, and so on in Utah. The findings of this study reveal that in their informal cultural education, more similarities than differences were found among three groups in terms of who the main cultural educator was, viewpoints about cultural education, and fundamental philosophies. |
