Culture Clash: The Americanized Teenagers Implications for Parenting, Teaching, and Mentoring by Lutie Orteza Lee

American Schools Are Squeezing Immigrant Culture. When immigrant parents send their kids to school, they don't expect them to come home and rebel against every aspect of their ethnic culture, but that is exactly what American schools are doing to first-generation immigrant youth. Former newspaper columnist and public school teacher Lutie O. Lee has been helping families cope with their Americanized youth for years, and now she has written the only book to deal directly with the issue of raising an Americanized child. "Culture Clash" is a firsthand account of how the tension and conflict at home is caused by daily pressure at school and from American peers. "Culture Clash" provides a better way of dealing with those pressures and helps families communicate. The number one lesson, Lutie says, is "open" communication between parents and teens.