1. Start thinking about your project… Something related to Asian Americans Ethical

2. Tuesday’s Readings Mankekar: Myth of successful immigrant – Immigrants as beloved AND threatening – Perception that puts “real” Americans out of jobs – Overlooks poor and working class Chan: Can you think of an example of reverse socialization in your own families? (e.g., learning English) – Do you think it’s problematic?

3. Bicultural Identity and Cultural Frame Switching Benet-Martinez, Leu, Lee & Morris, 2002

4. What is BII? What is frameswitching? What is low BII v. high BII?

5. Study 1 What was the purpose of the study? What were the predictions? Who were the participants? What did they do?

7. External v. Internal Attribution Scale 1: agreement with “the one fish is being influenced by the group” (e.g., being chased, teased, or pressured by the others)” 9: agreement with “the one fish is influenced by some internal trait” (such as independence, personal objective, or leadership)

9. Bicultural Identity Integration I am a bicultural who keeps American and Chinese cultures separate and feels conflicted about these two cultures. I am simply a Chinese who lives in America (vs. a Chinese-American), and I feel as someone who is caught between two cultures (1)Definitely not true (High BII) (9) Definitely true (Low BII)

10. What did the authors find in general for Study 1? For example: How did High BII react to American v. Chinese primes? How did low BII react to American v. Chinese primes?

11. Study 2 How did Study 2 differ from Study 1? What did they find?

12. Study 3 How did Study 3 differ from the previous studies? What did they find?

13. Takeaways Bicultural identity is not always oppositional – in fact, some are able to perceive the two identities as compatible What about those who don’t base their identity on two cultures? (e.g. unique id) How does the role of context relate to bicultural id?

14. Bicultural Id Exercise Draw out how each article views bicultural identity Tuan Mankekar Chan Benet-Martinez et al.