Asian American identity and drug consumption: from acculturation to normalization.
Asian American identity and drug consumption: from acculturation to normalization.
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DOI：
10.1080/15332640802508168
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Evans, Kristin
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作者：
Moloney, Molly;Hunt, Geoffrey;Evans, Kristin
本文分析了206名年轻亚裔美国人在一个舞蹈俱乐部/锐舞现场的叙述中物质使用和种族认同之间的关系。我们研究了药物使用的意义，发现三种类型的叙述被用来解释他们的药物使用。第一个指出的困难，从他们的亚裔美国人的身份，文化冲突的经验，并与文化适应和美国化的压力。第二个人认为他们的毒品消费在亚裔美国人中是不寻常的，并认为他们的毒品使用表明他们已经远离亚洲文化并朝着白色/美国文化发展。最后一组人认为他们作为亚裔美国人的身份既不是吸毒者，也不是亚裔美国人吸毒者。吸毒是他们休闲时间的正常、可接受和平凡的一部分，而不是他们认为有问题或不寻常的事情。
This article analyzes the relationship between substance use and ethnic identity in the narratives of 206 young Asian Americans in a dance club/rave scene. We examined the meaning of drug use and found three types of narratives invoked to explain their drug use. The first noted difficulties arising from their Asian American identities, the experience of culture clash, and stresses associated with acculturation and Americanization. The second viewed their drug consumption as unusual among Asian Americans and saw their drug use as indicative of the degree to which they have grown apart from Asian culture and toward white/American culture. The final group saw their identities as Asian Americans neither as drug users nor as Asian American drug users as problematic. Drug use was a normal, accepted, and mundane part of their leisure time, not something they viewed as problematic or unusual.