| September1994in the international conference on population and development(ICPD) in Cairo Egypt, worldwide scholars put the concept of reproductive health into the Program of Action as an important global priority, also points out adolescents' reproductive health should be one of the goals of the priorities. Teenagers are the future of the world's most important human resources, their problems in reproductive health directly related to population, economic and social sustainable development. In fact, teenagers' opening sexual behavior, premarital sex, undesired pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease and AIDS are happening to the teenagers more than ever, they are facing more and more sexual and reproductive health related risk. However, most of the birth control programs and sexual health education are limited to married couple, ignored the teenager groups. The opening sexual behavior and lagged sexual health education, make teenagers to face greater difficulties to achieve positive positive healthy sexual and reproductive health. Adolescent sexual and reproductive health problems have already became an important public health problems and notable social problems.About one hundred years ago, Western scientists launched a fierce debate about whether the causes of human behavior is nature or nurture. One of important issues both sides of the debate won't give up is, the formation of the adolescent behavior and personality is learnt after birth or an innate form of behavior. Against biologists'opinion, Boas and Mead put forward the view cultural determinism. They believe, adolescence is decided by education and nurture after birth. This debate never ended. In recent years, most research on adolescence believe adolescent behavior changes because of the biological age of sexual maturity, hormone secretion, etc. This paper started with the same topic, to discuss the how the cultural change would affect adolescent behavior changes.The Dong people who live in southeast of Guizhou province, due to remoteness and inconvenient transportation, still retain a more strong traditional culture for a long history in the closed state. Special natural environment, socio-economic and cultural systems have breded rich ethnic characteristics of the local form of love and marriage customs. With the development of society, all aspects of the Dong area have undergone tremendous changes, whose traditional customs inevitably has changed fast. In the same time, Dong teenagers'adolescent behavior has changed greatly too. But most scholars'research of adolescent are focus on the Han region, research of reproductive health are liminated in married couple, only few of them has researched ethnic minority adolescents adolescence and reproductive health, such is right the starting point of this study.In this study, Dong village P of Pingjiang Township at the southeast of Guizhou province as inspection point, through field work, deep into the Dong people lives, live under the same roof and eat at the same table. Using emic and etic perspective, the author observed carefully the Dong people's lives and carry out the depth interviews with Dong teenagers to gather first-hand information, and combined with the historical literature to discuss the teenagers and their parents' adolescence, descript the Dong teenagers adolescent behavior with anthropology cases, compared to two generations of great changes, point out that culture change is the main factors, continue the anthropology debate and put forward some suggestions for adolescent education... |
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