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

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

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

How to minimize the negative impacts on Bundala National Park due to irrigation development of the Kirindi Oya River Basin

The environment is an important water user, and one that often finds itself at the bottom of the list of priorities when supplies become scare. This research studied how the needs of wetlands can coexist in parallel with irrigation demands and other human activities. Sri Lanka is a signatory to the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance for Migratory Waterfowl, known as the Ramsar Convention and Bundala Lagoon was declared Sri Lanka’s first Ramsar site, a wetland of international importance for migratory waterfowl, in 1990, because of its high bird species richness. The delicate ecological balance of these lagoons will be severely affected by the on-going Weheragala Reservoir project, which is designed to divert excess water from Manike Ganga River basin to Kirindi Oya River basin and the Malala Oya River basin development project. The main negative impacts are eutrophication, accumulation of pesticides and insecticides in the lagoons and siltation, and that lagoons will be converted to fresh water bodies. This research studied how to minimize these negative impacts using social, economic and engineering tools. The research findings are useful for researches, policymakers and decision-makers, who must find opportunities to improve farmers’ incomes and national food production, while and at the same time ensuring sustainable management of wetland ecosystems in Sri Lanka.Length: pp.1-6WetlandsLagoonsHabitatsIrrigated farmingEnvironmental degradation

Enhancing of drinking water source for the city of Tangalle

The Tangalle town is located on the Southern coastal belt of Sri Lanka and the source of drinking water to the Tangalle town is the Kirama Oya. Due to rapid expansion of the town the project operates at 25 % of its capacity. In addition the projected demand of 15,000 cu.m.per day is required in 2025. Due to competitive use of water for irrigation during the dry weather periods, it is conceptualized to store back water of Kirama Oya during floods in a lake. The floods which normally occur with the monsoonal rains are expected to fill up the lake. Apart from the empirical knowledge available regarding the flooding of the Kirama Oya , there was no detailed hydrological study. This paper describes the application of NAM hydrological model and HEC_RAS hydrodynamic model to understand the process of flooding, its frequency of occurrence and any implication of impounding water in Nawayalawila on the existing environment