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Asian American families and youth  

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  • Asian American families are a multicultural group composed of individuals from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian (Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam), Filipino, and other Asian backgrounds and cultures (Fong, 1995; Sung, 1995). While Asian American families are similar in some aspects of their heritage cultures, they are diverse in many ways (Sung, 1995). [Source: Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science; Asian American Families and Youth]

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