The time has come to lift a veil over one of the most mysterious cultures in the world. Despite the fact that there has always been a standard for Asian women to behave and to structure their relationships with the male counterparts, with the advent of the feminist movement, which reached even patriarchal Asia, with its strict regulations concerning the specific code of conduct that the Asian women must adhere to; merging with the traditional submissive style of behavior, the newly acquired manners create quite a conflict, which resolves in developing a completely new type of identity which is likely to become a completely new type of Asian female identity.
It is worth mentioning that specific researches have been carried out to define the new type of Asian women in the popular culture – the sphere which literally promotes certain behavioral patterns and, therefore, is worth considering as the most typical source of role models for women. Among the most notable works that deserve being mentioned, the paper by Alizou Zalipour takes an important place, for it outlines not only two major types of Asian women identities but also mentions the most typical identities for Asian women in general. Despite the fact that the author splits women’s behavioral patterns into four types, there is a distinct split between the women of the new era and the women of the patriarchal type in his work, which makes the paper altogether a truly all-embracing study on Asian female identities. The second work which has portrayed Asian women in a very specific manner and allowed to outline a basic type of Asian women is the paper by Anju Sohal, who describes the traditional type of Asian women – the ones who were born to mind the business which was typically considered as completely “female,” e.g., household chores.
Therefore, it is doubtless that in modern Asian society, the mixture of cultures can be observed, which leads to creating a completely new type of Asian women identity and encourages forming a different manner of women’s social behavior (Merchant). The latter, in its turn, is highly likely to lead to the development of a different type of attitude towards women and a new status of a woman in the Asian culture. The given representations of communication in the Asian culture show clearly that live communication often proves not the expected pattern of socializing but a completely new manner of socializing. It is obvious that the given representations of communication break the traditional Asian norms and shape the behavioral patterns of women in Asia.
However, even with the changes which these women are trying to make to the social standards of an Asian woman’s communication, it is obvious that the traditional pattern of socializing still prevails, which is quite an expected phenomenon. According to the evidence offered above and the results of the research, it is obvious that a new idea of a women’s identity is starting to emerge currently in some of the Asian countries.
Comprising the elements of the Asian and Eastern cultures, the new identity is a step for the Asian women into the brave new world, and this step is likely to draw to the most unexpected results, finally leading to Asian women being treated in a less patriarchal and more reasonable and humane way, thus, heralding a new era for the Asian women.