Cultural Reverse I by Xiaohong Zhou

Author:Xiaohong Zhou [Zhou, Xiaohong]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Customs & Traditions, Sociology, Marriage & Family
ISBN: 9780429825408
Google: kPj2DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-27T05:03:50+00:00

In fact, SKF’s hopes for his children’s growth are not simply expressed as playing games, learning music, or being happy for a day or a lifetime; they also indicate the realization that life has a more complex and fulfilling meaning. For example, SKF noticed that the six-year-old SKB, who had a mouthful of bad teeth and clamored for Wi-Fi to play with his iPad as soon as he entered the cafe where we were seated, was much more sociable and affectionate than SKF was when he was a child—every time SKB left his grandparents' home and went back to his own, he would miss the children he met there for a long time. The older daughter, SKG, was inspired by her mother SKM, who was studying sociology, to learn about the past and present of her parents’ family by drawing a “family tree”. She found that just four generations later, her parents' families had more than 120 immediate family members. Not only did her maternal grandmother give birth to 12 children, but in mother SKM’s family, three relatives were inbred. Through home visits and telephone interviews, the 11-year-old learned about the many social and economic reasons for inbreeding, and her descriptions were even better than her mother SKM’s family sociology class.

Of course, the younger generation, including SKF’s, who grew up before and after the reforms, are standard marginal people. On the one hand, they become spiritual guides for their parents and even grandparents to reshape themselves, and they also use a more modern consciousness to shape their children. On the other hand, since marginal people are not the ultimate state of spirit, the spiritual transformation of Chinese people, as Ambrose King said, will not be as simple as stepping out of tradition and into modernity (King, 1999: 71). The current generation of adults is also facing a cultural backlash from younger generations. The next question, then, may be: Where do we reshape our nation’s values and outlook on life?

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