Advantages And Disadvantages Of Multicultural Families

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Understanding someone is a truly frustrating process to go through because it’s hard to genuinely get to know the person on the level of our own satisfaction. Likewise, it’s never a linear pathway but clustered doors after doors without an actual room pointing out the “last room”, because there isn’t one. Indeed, the number of multicultural families are increasing rapidly, and speaking about the appropriate counseling and education, it does take a great role on shaping individual’s belief and them as a part of the society. Therefore, three major concerns they would most likely deal with are cultural differences, social status, and language communications.
Cultural clashes create misunderstanding that may lead to discrimination against race/ethnicity, …show more content…

For example, focusing on the issues of foreign matchmaking programs illustrates a Korean husband and an Asian wife (Vietnamese, Chinese etc.) suffering from the wife being left alone in their house being treated as the modern slave, disrespect by the Korean family members including their own children (as the children grows up), or unable to adapt to their environment and culture as I mentioned above. Likewise, they also suffer from the stereotype images of “Vietnamese wife” as being poor and “sold out” to Korea, which impacts the families surrounding as they are being targeted. Also, some of these multicultural children experience heavy racism and bullying from having a South-East Asian mother. In addition, some of these people aren’t able to learn fluent Korean and education due to poor financial conditions, therefore, all these unstable condition in their life style greatly impacts the families psychological state, in other words, they are living in a foreign country as the minority with no practical educational service