The American Family ( Jounal #14 )

West world and east world are two different culture groups. Not only are the population, culture, and education different but also the attitude toward others has also their own distinction. There are some resources that we can observe about the American family. When I watched movies, I was usually touched by the relationship between parents and children. For instance: In the American family, parents would give opportunities of choices to their children. They wouldn’t force children to do anything that they didn’t want to. If parents felt that their children made a wrong decision, they would analyze the problems to help children to understand and furthermore to make a right decision. If children insisted their perspectives, even though parents felt inappropriate, parents would still respect children’s decisions; however, parents would tell their children to shoulder the results that they made. Besides, if the American family faced to arguments, parents would try to talk to their children and by expressing parents’ feeling to children, children could know the concern from parents and understand their parents. Another obvious difference in the American family is that children wouldn’t hide their love and feeling to their parents. American children were accustomed to expressing their love and feeling to others and this expression could increase the intimate beween each other.

In the contrast, in Asian family, parents and children rarely expressed their own feeling to each other. Most of time, parents would ask their children to obey parents’ directions so children have no opportunities to develop their own idea and creativity.

In my point of view, I think that American children have a lot of creativity that can make them individually. And American children can easily express their opinion in the public are. When people see the American children, people will be astonished by American children’s confidence and accomplishments. A psychologist ever said” children’s developing of personality will have been accomplished before 7 years old.” I think that that is why so many outstanding people such as: Bill Gates, Dale Carnegie, and so on, are all American or they ever accepted American education.