Explain how African American, North American, Chinese, and Japanese cultures affect their children's self-esteem.
What will be an ideal response?
Children's ratings of self-esteem vary with ethnic, contextual, and cultural factors. For example, many African American children experience adverse contextual conditions such as poverty, unsafe neighborhoods, ongoing stressors, and the experience of racism and discrimination. As a result, African American children may score lower on measures of self-esteem than White and Hispanic children. Despite the fact that their academic achievement is in general higher than that of North American children, Chinese and Japanese children tend to score lower in self-esteem. One reason may be that competition is high and Asian children experience great pressure to achieve. In addition, Asian cultures emphasize collectivism, social harmony, and modesty, and do not encourage children to use social comparison to enhance their self-esteem. Instead, children are encouraged to praise others, including their peers, while minimizing attention to themselves in order to foster and maintain relationships.
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