If it bleeds, we can kill it. Or snap it into this Sesame Street playset. Really, with LEGO, there are no limits. This is especially clear when artists make custom LEGO minifigs, such as this one by DeviantART member exxtrooper. It shows the alien hunter from the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film Predator. He made the headpiece from the Chima line of LEGO products and added custom decals.
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The first generation is very aware of where they came from, and what they must do to succeed.
The second generation still hears the daily stories from their parents, but are now living in relative luxury and can relax a bit.
The third generation knows no other life, and have no idea of the suffering their ancestors went through to give them what they now take for granted. They hear the stories from their grandparents with skepticism.
TLDR: "Kids these days, they just don't know what they got. Now get off my lawn."
In saying that, the article doesn't seem to talk much about acculturative stress. These children are not simply 'becoming American'. They are dealing with the psychological stress of incorporating two identities into one child, the identity expected at home, and the identity expected at school (or the more "Americanized" identity).
For 2nd and 3rd generation children, they are now legally Americans (as they were born in the States) but are still struggling with being bi-cultural. Quite literally, bi-cultural children must learn twice as much as their established counter parts. Often that includes two languages and two sets of expected social time tables (education, marriage, children, ect). Of course, two sets is the simplest scenario. Then, these children must learn (all on their own) how to balance the two.
While building awareness about these children's struggles is important (as many were either transported as infants/toddlers or born here) we must be sensitive to their experiences as uniquely defined by their bi-cultural status.
-Usually by/after 3g, they've pissed it away because they're not visionaries anymore, they're Useless Aristocrats who know how to do Nothing but spend money.
Most immigrants who come here legally enjoy life here and make a go of it. Their children end up spoiled, period. Their grandchildren, even more so. What is so surprising about that?
As to WHY they are spoiled, well, put it down to how upwardly mobile immigrants can be here and stop bashing America.
You won't find many countries in the world where people can come, work hard and so quikly carve out a decent life for their family.
Jealous? Get over it. That's life.
But don't try to make us feel ashamed of the freedom we have to move up.
Habituation. We habituate and slacken on our morals and habits when the environment is so.