My Chinese Heritage Analysis

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Like Chinese American students, Lee realized the different between school and her home. It began from the different of her culture and the way she was brought up. She didn’t know the Chinese heritage would play any role in her future as much as other students. This is easy for her to become an American and fit with American culture in here.
Epidemically (2) outer layer of the skin
Squirm (3) distress, embarrassment
Haphazard (4) random, by chance
Tandem (7) bicycle with two seats
Read to Respond The calling someone a banana or an Oreo can hurt them because it makes people thought they didn’t completely as a standard of people. Their appearance were Chinese but they can’t speak, write and read Chinese fluently. They though and behave as to American. They studied American history and American culture. Besides, they speak English every day. …show more content…
She thought the beauty when she played with white dolls. It shaped her mind and herself esteem. If everyone is basically the same, why their skin colors are so different?

Read to Analyze Assumptions I am confused by the way Lee talked about the importance of her heritage when she visited her classmates’ house. They didn’t have trace of their heritage. That didn’t depend on the heritage long or short, it depended on their tradition culture, Western or Eastern. My friends, American, think just museum or principal’s office should hang the trace of heritage. Lee’s American school shapes her mind as a completely American. It helps her to achieve success and career in her future. Besides, her family shapes her mind as Chinese. They afraid Lee will forget the Chinese history, the way Chinese ancestors

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