The Little Emperor Syndrome (or Little Emperor Effect) is an aspect of China's one-child policy where only children gain seemingly excessive amounts of attention from their parents and grandparents. Combined with increased spending power within the family unit and parents' general desire for their child to experience the benefits they themselves were denied, the phenomenon is generally considered to be problematic. Andrew Marshall even argues that it is shaping Chinese society in unexpected ways[1] that may culminate into a future "behavioral time-bomb."[2]
Little Emperors are primarily an urban phenomenon. The one-child policy only applies to urban communities and, given the value of labor, only children are not prevalent within rural communities. Economic development has not had as large an impact outside of urban centers.
Chinese teenagers whose parents work in factories do not go to Luxor.Chinese kids are the narcissts. Really, no brothers and sisters due to "One Child Policy." They receive all the love from their parents and knows no bonds with their family, mostly because their fathers and mothers work in factories and many of them rarely get to see them. It's fucked up.
When I was in uni, I had a chinese friend called 'Jacky Chan'. What was funny was that he found some part time job in a call center and one day a caller asked him what his name was and when he told him, the caller went angry thinking that he was taking the piss.I always get confused when Chinese people come to America, because I can never tell if they switched their given name and their family name to conform to Western standards or not, so I'm not sure if I'm calling them by their last name, or their first.
Drives me crazy.
Well, the Chan was probably his family name, and the Jacky was probably the Westernized name he picked when he came here, so he kinda was taking the piss, though unintentionally.When I was in uni, I had a chinese friend called 'Jacky Chan'. What was funny was that he found some part time job in a call center and one day a caller asked him what his name was and when he told him, the caller went angry thinking that he was taking the piss.
You look like Keanu Reaves?I hate it when Asian people confuse me with Keanu Reaves.