The first generation of immigrants (the parents) work hard to provide a better environment and education for the next generation of children, and they work hard to give their children more options. Education is also a very important issue for these immigrant families and most immigrant ‘industrial’ workers choose to send their children to ‘Independent School’ with the expectation that their children will have a more ‘excellent’ future. ”
Most immigrant ‘industrial’ workers choose to send their children to ‘independent schools’ in the hope that their children will have a ‘better’ future.
There is also a cultural ‘divide’ between children who have grown up in the UK and parents who have a Chinese cultural background.
1.Here are some answers I found on the internet to the question “British Chinese people, how was your childhood growing up in the UK?
Compared to my white British friends, much of my childhood was the same: schools, food, clothes, music, sport, romances, etc.
The bits that were different were:
experiencing overt racism
cultural differences at home
identity issues from an early age
Its funny, some Chinese people do not see me as Chinese either. I either get called ‘Banana’ or British.
https://www.quora.com/British-Chinese-people-how-was-your-childhood-growing-up-in-the-UK
2.Chinese parents in the UK are finding new ways to succeed and are shifting to a new approach to education, encouraging their children to be more open to learning. They are different from among parents in China,（who have a reputation for being strict, dominating）.
“Overall, Chinese parents living in the UK are more lenient on their children’s education,” said May Huang, CEO of UK Education Weekly, a London-based education-focused Chinese language publication. “That is because they realized that in the UK education environment, a child with great personality and other life skills can gain high achievement and recognition, even if the child does not have top academic grades.”
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201806/08/WS5b197348a31001b82571ec64.html
3. Chinese Takeway kids video
3. As descendants of immigrants, ethnic Chinese growing up overseas are more often than not faced with questions about their identity. In the bbc interview documentary “Takeaway Children”, jun kit says: “It’s a really strange feeling ……
Everyone thinks you’re Chinese, but you’re so unfamiliar with China, I can’t even tell which side I’m supposed to be on. I can’t even tell which side I am.”
In their subconscious only they are native British citizens and China is their ancestral home, but not as familiar as the UK.
The parents of these children emigrated, most of them doing the hardest and most tiring work for their children to “turn over a new leaf” in Western society, trying their best to provide their children with everything they could, a better environment to grow up in and get an education.
The previous generation worked hard to give their children a better upbringing and education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii9o8B_9sXo
‘Takeaway Kids’: BBC presents British Born Chinese documentary
http://www.chinaql.org/BIG5/n1/2019/1210/c419652-31499256.html
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