Suffering from double silence: sexuality instruction of south Asian minority youth in Hong Kong: Intercourse Training: Vol , No

Summary

Recognition of culturally assorted younger people’s legal rights and requires to sexuality education has been raised internationally. Nonetheless, present literature has frequently focused additional on how culturally numerous youthful men and women navigate western mainstream societies, leaving the Asian context underexamined. This paper explores the encounters and views of South Asian minority youth of sexuality education and learning at household and in college in Hong Kong, educated by legal rights-primarily based and cultural competence views of sexuality schooling, and applying a qualitative descriptive methodology. The findings discovered four themes: (1) the double silence seasoned at household and school (2) marriage in the same faith and caste (3) gender role anticipations to be caring women of all ages and protecting guys, and (4) the will need for culturally qualified sexuality education and learning. This paper contributes to scholarship on sexuality education and learning by advancing the expertise foundation by means of a situation analyze carried out in Hong Kong, an Asian multicultural context that differs from western multicultural societies. It elucidates the which means of cultural sensitivity and cultural competence by stressing the negotiability of cultural norms and taboos and pinpointing the practical implications for conducting sexuality schooling in a multicultural town like Hong Kong.