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Chinese Heritage Kalen Kimbler In the story Amy Tan is embarrassed of her Chinese heritage. She shows this by using adjectives and states her feelings. When her parents invites the Minister’s family to their Christmas dinner, she is worried about how they will react to her shabby Christmas dinner. American Christmas is a lot different from her Chinese Christmas the food is different and her relatives have no manners. At first she was kind of disgusted with her relatives for behaving like they did. Her family members were reaching across the table, licking their chop sticks and putting it back in the food, and burping loudly. Her dad embarrassed her even more by poking out the fishes cheek and offering it to her. She still hopes

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