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The anthology examines cultural reconciliation, early school experiences that highlight difference in language, food, and appearance, and the emotional impact of loneliness, confusion, and desires to deny one’s culture. It addresses immigrant family pressures, conflicts between parental expectations and Australian attitudes, struggles with English and social acceptance, and recurring themes of prejudice, racism, stereotyping, and the search for an adult self.","Insight text article on Growing up Asian in Australia  \nArticle by Rosemary O’Shea  \nGROWING UP ASIAN IN AUSTRALIA  \nEdited by Alice Pung  \nINTRODUCTION  \nAll the writers in this anthology explore the idea of being both Asian and Australian. Many write of the struggle to reconcile their two cultures, while others describe feeling excluded from one or even both cultures. While some celebrate the richness of the different elements of their identity, many of the writers have found establishing a solid sense of Asian-Australian identity to be a painful process.  \nMost of the voices speak in the first person about childhood and adolescence, with a level of intimacy and immediacy. No single contributor speaks for a whole culture, as each experience is unique. The voices range from humorous and self-deprecating to heartfelt and angry. ‘Asian’ is interpreted widely. The contributors’cultures are diverse, and include Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Bangladeshi, Thai and Filipino-Turkish backgrounds. Some of the contributors are high achievers in media, politics and the arts, and the writers’ages range from as young as 17 to people in their 60s. Even though some contributions have been written in the third person, the writers clamour to tell us that all are true in essence.  \n© Insight Publications 2009 1  \nInsight text article on Growing up Asian in Australia  \nExploring Issues of Identity and Belonging in Growing up Asian in Australia  \nDuring adolescence, people often begin to face the dilemma of who they are and where they belong. Many writers in this anthology are confronted by this problem at a much earlier age, when school experiences bring home the stark reality that they are different from those around them, in their language, their food and their appearance. The anthology shows how a sense of being different can profoundly affect a child, causing loneliness, confusion and very often a desire to deny their own culture. Sometimes, racism and cruelty intensify the misery.  \nBeing an immigrant is hard, and being the child of immigrants brings its own problems. The writers portray many parents who have arrived almost penniless in Australia and have worked hard, determined to achieve prosperity, or at least economic survival. The older generation takes comfort from their extended family and cultural rituals, often struggling with English and seemingly more comfortable identifying as Chinese or Vietnamese than as Australian. Their children, however, strive to establish a more complex identity which combines Asian heritage and Australian experience. This often causes conflict, as many parents who want their children to succeed in Australia also want them to avoid becoming Australian in attitude and behaviour. The writers present the difficulty of coping with family expectations, and with parents who cannot comprehend their problems of identity and belonging. For some writers, assuming an AsianAustralian identity has brought estrangement from the family and made it more difficult to establish a sense of belonging.  \nThe contributors tell stories of friendships that help them survive and define themselves; of struggles against the stereotype of the Asian student who is entirely focused on study; and of overcoming problems of communication in their relationships.  \n© Insight Publications 2009 2  \nInsight text article on Growing up Asian in Australia  \nIDEAS & ARGUMENTS IN THE TEXT  \nOverview  \nGrowing up Asian in Australia presents the experiences of more than fifty writers, but their stories often return to common themes that run through the anthology.  \nFamily expectations of young Asian-Australians  \nAlmost all the contributors describe parents whose work ethic is powerful and who expect the children to work in the family business. 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