Informal cultural education in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans

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Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Humanities
Department Asia Center
Author Na, Kijoung
Title Informal cultural education in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans
Date 2011-08
Description 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.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Asian American; Chinese American; Immigrant cultural education; Informal cultural education; Japanese American; Korean American
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Master of Arts
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Kijoung Na 2011
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 615,733 bytes
Identifier us-etd3,54897
Source original in Marriott Library Special Collections ; HT57.5 2011 .N2
ARK ark:/87278/s6988nqc
Setname ir_etd
ID 194262
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6988nqc
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