ABSTRACT
Foreign-born Chinese youth and their U.S.-born counterparts share important similarities-most notably, foreign-born parents who want their children to succeed. Their parents are foreign-born and immigrated to the United States as adults, but were reared in traditional Chinese cultural beliefs, norms, and behavioral patterns. Their parents expect them to excel in school, achieve success in the workplace, and supersede their socioeconomic status. However, unlike U.S.-born or -raised Chinese adolescents, foreign-born youth arrive in the United States in their teens. While their parents may have similar expectations, the two groups of youth are remarkably dissimilar in some fundamental ways that lead them to navigate their host society from different frames of reference.
