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to reconcile with their Chinese heritage when surrounded with western influences. Even though…

In 1862 Morrill Act was passed by congress in an attempt to keep polygamy from altering or hindering the very fabric of American Democracy (Abrams, 2015). That act was put in place because Mormons and Chinese immigrant had a different view that was hostile to the growing democracy and federalism implied by congress that perpetuated certain family norms not to be polygamous (Abrams, 2015). In September 24, 1890, the Church of Latter Day Saints bowed to the government and withdrew from the…

I may be a white male according to my government because that is what I was born as and I can not really change that. Now let’s say I want to learn chinese culture because I have the choice to. I can easily change my ethnicity by choice , whereas my race can not be changed. The fluidity of ehtnicity versus the hard fact of race is one major difference. Also people rarely judge based on someones ethnicity…

make it difficult to summarize its culture. Much like the United States, it has a wide variety of climates, populations, and physical features that both limit and benefit China's citizens. The sheer size of China and its population creates numerous languages and dialects; this makes the country culturally diverse, and it also makes it more difficult to interact with others. The physical geography perhaps has affected China's culture most in its transportation, housing, and typical diet.…

especially Chinese. Chinese immigrants arrived by all means of transport; and despite barriers, they flooded into the United States. In 1880, according to the “Background Timeline of Chinese Immigration and Exclusion”, the Chinese population in the America passed one hundred thousand and seemed to still increasing rapidly. Such large number of “foreigners” raised the feelings of nativism and opposing among the Americans. Thus, in 1882, the United States government passed the Chinese Exclusion…

In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, the author chooses to primarily focus her novel on the miscommunications between traditional Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters via the use vignettes from almost every character. Throughout the novel, Tan writes about several characters that have made a hero’s journey according to Joseph Campbell. Campbell states that a hero’s journey includes: a departure, how a hero sets off onto their journey, a fulfillment, their goal that is being accomplished,…

Would it be hard to believe that most of the jobs in china are American jobs? Many companies move their factories overseas to get an edge over their competitors, but this in turn made them leave as well. It is too expensive nowadays to try and employ a large amount of American workers to work on assembly lines that require little to no prior education. After realizing this fact, they moved to a place with a lower minimum wage. These places include China and Mexico as two of the top ones. "On…

to escape from their struggles in a war torn Kweilin, and was continued on in America. Amy Tan utilized the experiences she had growing up in a household with a Chinese immigrant mother, to inspire the plot of the novel. In The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan analyzes the relationship between mothers and daughters in a generation gap of Chinese cultured women, and their Americanized daughters. The daughters challenge their mothers, especially their positions of authority. This can be more…

a greater understanding of immigrant struggles for members of the white majority in his graphic novel American Born Chinese. The setup of this graphic novel is different; it has three storylines going on at once. The story begins after the Monkey King is denied entry into a dinner party in Heaven…

are mostly about mothers and their daughters' generation gap of miscommunications and misunderstandings. Some daughters and mothers may get along, but some don’t. In The Joy Luck Club there were four Chinese mothers: Ying-ying St. Clair, Lindo Jong, An-mei Hsu, and Suyuan Woo. Also with four Chinese daughters: Rose Hsu Jordan , Jing-mei Woo, Waverly, and Lena St. Clair each all have miscommunications and misunderstandings. Throughout the novel, Lena’s mother, Ying-ying, always complain about…