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a and Mink (2001: 247-261) stated that their data indicated that when Chinese immigrants attempt to separate from the family in accordance with Western norms of becoming individuated and self-reliant people (e.g., the second generation leaving home early and getting their own place), they find their cultural notions and values pulling them in the opposite direction, namely toward loyalty to the norms of family cohesion, interdependency, and identification with their culture. This pull leads to both internal and external conflicts associated with the dynamic and painful struggle between opposing value systems. The result is turmoil

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