“Asian parenting” has become a hot topic of public conversation lately. In a sign of their growing maturity and confidence, second-generation Asian migrants in Australia and other countries have become more comfortable sharing stories of their complex relationships with their “tiger parents”. In social media forums such as Subtle Asian Traits and its numerous spin-offs, young people express resentment, acceptance and other reflections on the way they were raised. But the reckoning is not limited to social media.
Recent films such as Disney and Pixar’s Turning Red and Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once also explore intergenerational relationships within Asian migrant families, depicting the burden of expectations and children’s attempts to meet, defy or negotiate them.
