Should Chinese Culture Be Taught In American Classrooms?

Have you ever wondered where America gets its culture from? Well “American” culture is from all over the world, America is like a melting pot. A big part of American culture comes from China. Chinese culture has a large impact on America’s food, festivities, fashion, art, health techniques and more therefore, this should be taught in American classrooms. A main way that the Chinese culture influences American culture is through health methods. Many things that we took from them are; acupuncture, tai chi, as well as Chinese herbal medicines. In American classrooms, we should learn all about this and how we use acupuncture a lot today, which came from Chinese culture. Currently, many insurance companies even cover acupuncture because of how big and needed it can be for some people. We have also adapted certain types of meditating which is commonly used to help you relax and even ease certain pain or symptoms. But health isn’t the only thing we use from the Chinese culture, we also took art and fashion styles. …show more content…
There are fashion and art shows dedicated to Chinese culture. An exhibition in New York’s theme was “China: Through the Looking Glass, a celebration of half a millennium of Chinese influence on European luxury goods.” America’s art/fashion at this exhibit was heavily inspired by China, including the designs/patterns on things. Many Americans are interested in Chinese calligraphy and characters. Today people get tattoos of a special meaning or saying that is in Chinese. Art isn’t only used in fashion or tattoos there is also a lot of art in certain festivities or