Second-generation children interpret parents’ nationalist pride claims as identity repair against stigma

Evidence

Second-generation youth like Yara perceptively contextualized the stories about potato chips and other national achievements that floated around their homes. Rather than outright accept or ignore their parents’ claims, they hypothesized that their elders were trying to instill a sense of Iranian identity or pride in American-born children, who risked low self-esteem or lack of accurate knowledge because of stigmas associated with Iran. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 217

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Coleman’s social capital work on intergenerational transmission of capital — parental effort to transmit cultural pride parallels parental human capital transmission. — connects to: First-generation parents urge their children to claim Aryan whiteness against school bullying — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 74

Related

• First-generation parents urge their children to claim Aryan whiteness against school bullying (similarity 0.84)
• First-generation Iranian parents teach their children that Iranians are Aryan whites (similarity 0.81)
• Iranian family racial talk repeatedly centers the Aryan myth and Persian exceptionalism (similarity 0.79)