转个说小韩的，希望咱这的小中不至于那么糟

来源: 听听意见于 2012-11-02 13:38:37 [档案] [博客] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读：次 (3513 bytes)

I'm a middle-aged half-Korean woman who owns a tech business. In my experience, trying to hire and having hired a couple of second-gen Korean-Americans, these young people tend to be emotionally and socially immature - even stunted. Seems they are caught in a twilight zone between their parents' world and the "American" world.

Their English skills seem fine on the surface, but they are stunted there too. I've seen that caught-between-two-languages and not being proficient at either phenomenon in Mexican-American immigrants' children as well. There certainly exists immigrant enclaves, ghettos if you will, where immigrants cling to each other and speak their native language exclusively - here in the L.A. area it's possible to pretend like you're still in Korea or El Salvador or etc. I have immigrant friends I chide to learn English. I ask them, "How will you communicate with your grandchildren?"

What are the stats on East-Indian Americans and the corporate ladder? It seems in the tech arena, they are doing quite well at all levels.

In my opinion, this bamboo ceiling situation exists for the first and second gens but it will not exist for the third gens. It's an old immigrant story, played out time and time again. My east-coast born hu*****and remembers as a child the dirty-jobs construction workers in his affluent Connecticut area were all Italian immigrants. Here in L.A. they are all Latinos. It's the cycle of immigrants.

The huge "bubble" of Asian children in the top colleges is the end-result of their parents' American dreams and aspirations. Not the dreams of the children themselves. But again, the third-gens will have their own dreams - true American-style.