The Nature of Support from Adult Sansei (Third Generation) Children to Older Nisei (Second Generation) Parents in Japanese Canadian Families

Given the growing ethnocultural diversity of Canada's aging population and the increased research focus on the role of the family in the social support of older persons, it is important to explore the ways in which adult ethnic minority children provide assistance to older parents within the context of the family. The current study contributes to research on intergenerational support systems in later life in Japanese Canadian families by examining the factors, particularly the cultural value of oya koh koh (filial obligation), affecting the nature of support from adult children to older parents. Using data gathered from interviews with 100 older nisei (second generation) parents and 100 adult sansei (third generation) children in British Columbia, the study focuses on the frequency, quality and provision of three types of support: emotional, service, and financial. Results of logistic regression analyses indicate that oya koh koh has a significant effect on children's provision of emotional support, but no effect on financial or service support. Parent's health and socioeconomic status are found to have significant effects on children's provision of financial and service support. Child's availability is also a major determinant of financial support. Further, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analyses results suggest that oya koh koh has a significant effect on the quality of emotional support provided by children to their parents. Findings are discussed in terms of the North American Asian "ideal" family myth and directions for future research.family support; filial obligation, intergenerational relations; Japanese Canadian; model minority myth

Lagu Kaulinan Barudak Sebagai Sumber Kreativitas Seni Oleh Oya Yukarya dan Iik Setiawan

ABSTRACT Among the richness of Sundanese traditional arts, the song Kaulinan Barudak or the song Kaulinan urang lembur is a repertoire of traditional Sundanese musical songs that can be a source of creativity ideas. This study aims to describe the interpretation and presentation of Pamones by Oya Yukarya and Sasalimpetan creation by Iik Setiawan in using the Kaulinan Barudak song as a source of creativity ideas. This study uses a descriptive analysis method with a qualitative approach to answer problems in accordance with the problem formulation, namely how the interpretation and presentation of Oya Yukarya and Iik Setiawan in their work. The findings of this study consist of elements of text and context interpretation such as pitch, theme, tempo, processing of arrangements and gending, and presentation of form, function, and public response to works. Pamones by Oya Yukarya is an arrangement of new creations, with a variety of motion processing and new songs of Kaulinan Barudak which go through the interpretation stage so that it is more interesting and unique without reducing its essence. Sasalimpetan creation by Iik Setiawan is a new creation of gending for the song kaulinan sasalimpetan in Rineka Kaulinan Barudak's commercial cassette album 'Mapag Layung', there is a shift in absorption in connection with the need for a particular scene. Keywords: Barudak Kaulinan Song, work creativity, Pamones by Oya Yukarya, Sasalimpetan Creation by Iik Setiawa

Water quality and health of Pinga Oya

Pinga Oya is a tributary of the River Mahaweli, which mainly runs through the Akurana town along A9 highway and falls into River Mahaweli at Katugastota. This stream is one of the polluted streams/rivers in Kandy district. This paper attempts to assess the ‘river health’ of ‘Pinga Oya’, in terms of its water qulity and its watershed ecosystem, as it is an important political, social, and economic issue of the region

The political dimension of seasonal allocations: Developing a seasonal allocation strategy in a water-short system in Sri Lanka

Water allocation, Irrigation programs, Reservoirs, Participatory management, Farmer participation, Water rights, Irrigated farming, Rice, Water shortage, Farmers' attitudes, Farmer-agency interactions, Sri Lanka

Unamuno and James on Religious Faith

The aim of this paper is to argue against the received view among Unamuno scholars that Miguel de Unamuno was defending a sort of pragmatic argument for religious faith and that his notion of religious faith as “querer creer” (“wanting to believe”) is to be identified with William James’s “the will to believe”. As I will show in this paper, one of the aspects that makes Unamuno’s reasoning philosophically relevant is his ability to formulate a non-pragmatist defense of religious faith without a prior commitment to the truth of any religious or theological statement and grounded in our longing for an endless existence through God’s Salvation

OYA, Alberto. (2020). Unamuno's Religious Fictionalism. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. IX + 93

Reseña de: OYA, Alberto. (2020). Unamuno's Religious Fictionalism. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. IX + 93

Watching The Chair: a walk through the half-dim corridors of ‘the academia’?

Netflix’s The Chair, provides a rare mainstream representation of life in contemporary (US) academia. In this cross-post, Oya Zincir, reflects on the show and discusses how far it reflects the reality of life in academia more widely

Characteristics of nutrient and sediment loads in a lowland river system on the east coast of Sri Lanka

Economy of Sri Lanka, in general and Eastern province in particular, is largely depends on agriculture. Ampara is one of the most productive rice producing regions in Sri Lanka. The Gal-Oya River flows through the lowlands of the south-east coast of Sri Lanka and is predominately surrounded by rice paddies. The irrigated agriculture is at a high risk of excessive nutrient inputs due to the high application rates of nitrogen fertilisers used by Sri Lankan farmers. A baseline assessment of water quality was conducted in the Gal-Oya, with four sampling surveys in total. Two sampling surveys occurred during the dry season, one during the inter-monsoonal season and one during the monsoonal rains. Standard physical-chemical parameters were measured in situ and samples were taken for chemical analysis of free-nitrate, reactive-phosphate and suspended solids. The monsoonal rains were associated with dramatic increases in free-nitrate concentrations and suspended solids. This baseline study reveals the need for further investigations into the impacts associated with large-scale agriculture along the east coast of Sri Lanka. Water quality monitoring programs have been severely restricted along the East coast of Sri Lanka since the onset of the conflict between separatist and government forces in 1983. This monitoring programme represents the first major water quality assessment to be conducted for over two decades on the Gal-Oya

W. K. Clifford and William James on Doxastic Norms

The main aim of this paper is to explain and analyze the debate between W. K. Clifford ("The Ethics of Belief", 1877) and William James ("The Will to Believe", 1896). Given that the main assumption shared by Clifford and James in this debate is doxastic voluntarism –i.e., the claim that we can, at least in some occasions, willingly decide what to believe–, I will explain the arguments offered by Bernard Williams in his “Deciding to Believe” (1973) against doxastic voluntarism. Finally, I will explain what happens with the debate between Clifford and James once we accept Bernard Williams’s arguments and refuse to accept doxastic voluntarism