Chapter Year Of The Monkey Analysis

In an interview, Karen Tei Yamashita talked about what makes her to write I Hotel and how she started about it. She wrote a satirical article for her friend Amy Ling who is the professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Amy Ling told her the project might be about the Asian American movement in Los Angeles, but gradually Karen Tei Yamashita realized that she would shift the focus to San Francisco and enhanced her research to north. Because there are many different traveling stories related to San Francisco. In addition, the Third World strikes at San Francisco State College and UC Berkeley should be one of the reason why she chose this area as the subject of writing material. Therefore, she knew …show more content…
In Chinese culture, there is a system of 12 different names of Chinese year named the Chinese Zodiac. And it is also called as Sheng Xiao, based on a twelve-year cycle, each year in that cycle related to a kind of animal. These animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. The way of its calculation is accorded to Chinese lunar calendar. The zodiac is also mentioned in the chapter Outlaws. During the funeral proceedings, Paul is so passive. It means that he is not familiar with the approach of his father’s death. As an Asian American, he doesn’t know what the proceedings mean and what these symbolic meanings are, and all these things are indicated by his aunt. In chapter Theater of the Double Ax, there is a conversation related to Asian American generations. Pa was working at his shop and commiserating with a customers. The customer thought they didn’t set good example to their kids, and they continued to live like Chinese in American. Therefore, the youth confused about whether they should become more American, or retain their Chinese origins. For immigrants, the generation totally blend into the society and losing the sense of original culture should be the third generation at least. It’s not an easy process. The culture influences of immigrant generations are not only from their parents …show more content…
The Institution A is a center of research and a factory for knowledge and the Institution B is a teaching college, a middling institution in a tiered system. Even though there are some differences between these two institution, they all contain different working-class people and colored people -- black, yellow and brown. As a very small minority, these colored people engage in establishing their own department of ethnic studies. They wanted their own rules, their own classes, their own professors and more of themselves at the college. Actually, the college mentioned here is the epitome of the country -- American. Multiculturalism is generally applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, e.g. schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities, or nations. In the United States, continuous mass immigration has been a feature of economy and society since the first half of the 19th century. The absorption of the stream of immigrants in itself became a prominent feature of America's national myth, inspiring its own narrative about its past that is centered around multiculturalism and the embrace of newcomers from many different backgrounds. So why do they want to establish their own department of ethnic studies? Even they have been legal zitizens in this country for so many years even bron in here, they don’t have culture citizenship and they do not think that they belong to the