Many children face to a conflict with parent about their dream. Parent wants their children get tradition profession job like lawyer or doctor. But this ‘hope’ is burden for their children. Actually many immigrant especially 2nd generations have a burden to parent and other ethnic’s expectation and prejudice that Asian American are good at math, have a good grade but lack of leadership or social relationship. These discords between parent, other ethnic and 2nd generation group of Asian American are come from different concept and experience about success. To solve this problem, making ‘success model’ is good way because of breaking prejudice, persuading parent, confidence of 2nd generation themselves.
First successful model is a great to break the stereotype of Asian. For example Yul Kwon who is television host and former government official, lawyer, and management consultant showed his sociable trait, leadership and challenging which other ethnics think Asian American hardly has them through TV show, ‘thirteenth season of Survivor’. It is enough to prove people’s thought is not true.Asian successful model is a good way to break the prejudice of Asian.
Second, successful model gives that Asian American parents who want their children follow their expectation aware of their wrong attitude and make them change their mind. Of course their children are future and dream of them and it is natural that parent wish children get a success. But before they require, they should think that ’what is success?’ ‘what is my children’s dream?, ‘my require is help to their happiness?, ‘Did I want a lot of responsibility to children?. Just awareness about their unreasonable requirements is good.
Third, successful model can be a role model of 2nd generation who have dilemma between their parent’s American dream and their dream. They are fear that they can’t satisfy other people’s include their parent’s expectation. However they want to live as a ‘a private individual’ without heavy expectation, ethnic, nonmainstream. Still there are ethnic mainstream or nonmainstream furthermore it in hard for them to fill up the gap. Clearly they are American but can’t not but aware of ‘Asian’ American. And they can’t neglect their parent’s hope because they know their parent go through changes in U.S. But their life is theirs. So successful model can be a courage and possibility to gain their lives.
1st and 2nd generation, although they are live together, have different dream. If they, 2nd generation, even can’t harmony their family, it is more difficult to harmony with social group that there are many other ethnics and to be a member of American social. Of course, they should solve these problems themselves. but cause of their mental conflict is not only for them but also their parent dream that not consider their children’s dream. So it is important to awareness of 1st generation’s invisible force as well as other ethnic’s prejudice and they have confidence about their live. To do this, making successful model is one of the solutions.