SOCIOL 2U06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Cognizant

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Chapter nine: we don"t sleep around like white girls do family, culture, and. 100 filipinos in san diego interview. This article argues that gender is a key to immigrant identity and a vehicle for racialized immigrants to assert cultural superiority over the dominant group. American and whiteness: to me, american means white . Cognizant of this racialized history, my filipino respondents seldom identify themselves as american. Constructing the dominant group: the moral flaws of white americans. Because womanhood is idealized as the repository of tradition, the norms that regulate women"s behaviours become a means of determining and defining group status and boundaries. As a consequence, the burdens and complexities of cultural representation fall most heavily on immigrant women and their daughters. Family-oriented model minorities: white women will leave you . When asked what set filipinos apart from other americans, the respondents repeatedly constricted close-knit filipino families to what they perceived to be the more impersonal quality of us family relations.

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