ALCOHOL-CONSUMPTION AND USE NORMS AMONG CHINESE-AMERICANS AND KOREAN-AMERICANS

Homeland (Taiwan) Chinese are very low in alcohol consumption, while h omeland Koreans are very high in alcohol consumption. Neither Chinese Americans nor Korean Americans constitute a large portion of the resid ents of Hawaii, but across four surveys, data were obtained from 212 C hinese-American and 72 Korean-American college students or students' p arents. Persons from these groups do not differ greatly. Korean Americ ans are slightly higher in reported alcohol use and in judgments of th e nature of normal alcohol use. The two groups do not differ in their judgments of the nature of problem alcohol use.