Chinese American

s ignorance truly bliss? Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or information about a particular subject or fact. Such as, at one time, one would think that eating Chinese food, you would start to look Chinese. This portrays ignorance due to the fact that one has a lack of knowledge about a particular culture and it’s food that they misinterpret someone else's culture. Therefore, humans should become more knowledgeable about what is going on around them on a local, national, and global level in…

I saw the title “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, I know that this book will definitely have interesting information about Chinese cultures for movie adaptation. The book has two fascinating point that could be used in today’s life. Even though the book is categorized in fiction, but it including real and factual historic details about Chinese cultures. For example, Chinese ladies had the weird beliefs that having small feet made them look more attractive or at least marrying a rich guy, so that…

In prehistoric art, the term "Jomon", which means "cord pattern" in Japanese ,refers to the ancient pottery produced by Japan's first Stone Age culture, during the period 14,500 and 1000 BCE. It was named Jomon pottery by the American zoologist Edward S. Morse (1838-1925), who excavated the first known examples of Jomon ceramic art from the Omori shell-mound near Tokyo. Because all the recovered sherds had marks of twisted cords on their exterior surfaces, Morse gave them the name "Jomon". In…

But we later realized that those children were legally born in the U.S, making them U.S citizens and have the right to live here so we passed the Indian Child Welfare Act allowing Indian American children and their parents to live in the U.S (University of Oregon). Also in the late 1950s older, disabled, non-white and special needs children were starting to be adopted (University of Oregon). Which made made its own set of standards to the…

I was shocked and impressed by the statements in the podcast, that most of the content was the first time for me to hear. Because I do not know much stuff of linguistics and common knowledge about languages, I cannot decide whether the facts in the podcast are right. I would assume that most of what they said was truth, but I will make adjustments to my knowledge about linguistics and languages in the future. As an evolving language, English speakers have borrowed words from all other languages…

Books are usually set in different categories based on what aspect of life is their topic related to. A book “Questions of Hu” is a historical book written by Jonathan Spence, a British-American historian, who is specialized in Chinese History. Dr. Spence received a lot of positive critics by major newspapers and journals like Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, etc. This book can be considered as a product of Spence 's interest in China and its culture and history, and his passion…

On October 26th, Catherine Clark from MIT came and talked to the class about Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographs. Bresson had the ability to capture average life in the action of the moment. In 1948 Bresson was sent to China to take pictures of China as a communist nation during a civil war. He stayed there until 1949 and his photographs appeared in many magazines. He had a book made of his pictures called D’une Chine A L'autre. Clark’s role in this is to reconstruct his story and the story…

“generation gap” and the strain on family relations this may cause, Chinese families manage this gap through the cultural and social structures in which they are embedded. Zhou explains how Chinese children continue to perform within their parent’s expectations as a result of their “involvement in the Chinese ethnic community” (2011: 479). The fact that many Chinese immigrant families live in cities and suburbs with a large concentration of Chinese individuals allows these ethnic cultural values…

Chinese immigrants post 1965 face difficulties when coming to America. Chinese immigrants can re-establish ethnic networks but the connected are mainly from strangers instead of family and friends who have the same background (475). One challenge is their connections and networking are disrupted. Those immigrants who is in the middle class and chose to live in white suburbs have difficulties connecting with people of their “kind” (475). The second challenge is things are different in family…

hese days, Our AP history teacher, Mrs. Kirsch told us a lot about Native American lives in the New World before Columbian arrival. According to what we have learned, the live style in Wampanoag tribe is extremely distinct from the one in Chinese modern rural area. We had a heated discussion yesterday that talked about which one do we prefer, Wampanoag tribe or modern Chinese rural area. In my eyes, the former is more appealing choice. (Concentrated in Northwest of China) In the first place,…