Watch out for the Aunties! Young British Asians' accounts of identity and substance use
Watch out for the Aunties! Young British Asians' accounts of identity and substance use
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01011.x
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发表时间：
2007-07-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Bradby, Hannah
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作者：
Bradby, Hannah
本文认为，年轻人如何能够追溯到他们的起源从巴基斯坦或印度（以下简称亚洲人），讨论他们的使用，或从宗教和文化传统方面的酒精和烟草的戒除。宗教，种族，性别和世代在摄取或避免酒精和烟草的作用进行了探讨，在19个定性组和个人访谈与47名亚洲人年龄在16-26岁，并分析了在传统的先锋和保守的形式。据报道，对酒精和烟草的宗教禁令在形式上是不分性别的，但对名誉和未来婚姻机会的担忧，加上流言蜚语，意味着女性的行为一直比男性更受约束。穆斯林的戒酒与伊斯兰身份紧密相连，因为饮酒会危及一个人作为穆斯林的身份，而吸烟在年轻人中是可以容忍的。锡克教徒和印度教徒避免吸烟受到了强烈的认可，但吸烟并没有严重危及宗教身份。锡克教男子的谨慎表明，男子的力量是虔诚身份的核心。在老一辈人，特别是阿姨们的视野之外，一些实验是可能的，但人们强烈地感受到了流言蜚语损害年轻女性声誉的风险。虽然对妇女名誉的损害很难消除，但男子因吸毒而名誉受损，可以通过其父母的体面地位得到补偿。将传统视为创新的讨论很少见，而且遭到了抵制。传统在很大程度上被认为是一种需要规避的约束。
This paper considers how young people able to trace their origins from Pakistan or India (henceforth Asians'), discuss their use of, or abstention from, alcohol and tobacco in terms of religious and cultural tradition. The role of religion, ethnicity, gender and generation in the uptake or avoidance of alcohol and tobacco was explored in 19 qualitative group and individual interviews with 47 Asians aged 16-26 years and analysed in terms of pioneering and conservative forms of tradition. Religious proscriptions on alcohol and tobacco were reported to be formally gender blind, but concerns about reputation and future marriage chances, sanctioned by gossip, meant that women's behaviour was consistently more constrained than men's. Muslims' abstinence from alcohol was tightly linked with an Islamic identity in that drinking jeopardised one's claim to being a Muslim, whereas cigarette smoking was tolerated among young men. Sikhs' and Hindus' avoidance of tobacco was strongly sanctioned, but smoking did not strongly jeopardise a religious identity. Sikh men's abstention indicated manly strength central to a devout identity Some experimentation was possible out of view of the older generation, especially the aunties, but the risk of gossip damaging young women's reputations was keenly felt. While damage to women's reputations was hard to undo, men's reputations tarnished by substance use, could be compensated for by their parents' honourable status. Discussion of tradition as innovation was rare and met with resistance. Tradition was largely experienced as a constraint to be circumvented.