Here’s an excerpt from Chinese American Personality and Mental Health. Although I’ve spent plenty of time considering various nuances of the psychological conflict of living in American culture while being raised in a different one, I hadn’t boiled the results down into three boxes, as these researchers did. They have the Traditionalist who has adopted Chinese values, Marginal Man who has become essentially American, and Asian American who has developed a coalesced identity. I wonder what other types the researchers developed. Gender should really be a key variable in a report like this, something glossed over in this excerpt. Perhaps I should find the source article (which is also 30 years old, so that’s another factor) so I feel less itchy about this one.