Originally Posted by
laxmillenial
It is not only American culture. You see this in Chinese culture (mainlanders) as well.
You may see that in today's mainland Chinese children but that's a product of the single child policy and the resulting Golden Child syndrome, NOT Chinese culture per se. Growing up in Hawaii, Asian kids were not perfect (far from it!) but were generally expected to behave in public (more so than the haole kids anyway). So-called parents that shrug their shoulders and say, "kids, what can you do?" as the little hellion misbehaves irritate the heck out of me - they are breeding the next generation of miscreants.