Adolescents myths and issues?

Adolescents in Non-Western Culture?

• If you have any personal knowledge or experience of other cultures, please answer this question: "What pressures are adolescents faced with in contempory society in a different culture?" If you or any member of your family have knowledge regarding youth issues (e.g. having to be initiated etc.) on another culture please answer.

• Answer:

  In Malaysia, people has high expectations on their schooling children. They do not want to lose out in every aspects of life. The word to describe that is "kiasu". It derives from one of the Chinese dialect called "Hokkien" (refer website below). Sometimes, children were forced to become what they do not have passion in it e.g. becoming engineer instead of artist. Society tend to look at strainght "As" instead of looking at the talents that a person has.Our public examination is very exam-oriented and it generally encourage creativity. Students are forced to attend tuition classes and this does not give them time for themselves to do what they really want. Another problem is there are rat race in every corner especially in the city. I guess it does not only happen in my country... I am hoping to listen from others from other countries.