Color in Chinese culture

school. That's where my journey of being a minority started. I was appointed the badge of an “ethnic minority” at an age where I was trying to become my own self. We were a small group of colored people in a population where 90% of it was Chinese. People of color weren’t respected because they were seen as a burden to the Hong Kong community who took opportunities from them. I encountered a lot of discrimination from my reality that I couldn't run away from. Despite caring about the Hong Kong…

nervous, messing with the color of his grey polo shirt, as we begin to sit down for the interview. From my conversation with Mr. Frazier, I examined the strong differences between various cultures of schooling where their preparation of timing, and their idea of racism were nonexistent. The conversation taught me to remember to see the creativeness…

As tapestries have become a decorative staple among college-aged students across the United States in recent years, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back and see where and how they began, because as they say, “everything old is new again.” To begin, what exactly is a tapestry? A tapestry is a bobbin made cloth with a surface consisting entirely of weft threads, where discontinuous wefts form beautifully intricate patterns. Tapestries originated in Coptic Egypt around 42 AD,…

is taught in many secondary and high schools around the United States. Some examples of foreign languages taught in various schools are French, Spanish, and Chinese. These are three of the most popular languages taught in the country. Teaching students these languages are important because it gives the student an understanding of the cultures, and history of other ethnicities. Also, speaking a foreign language makes you a better candidate for a job over someone who does not know how to speak…

significances outside the system of the privileged and oppression. The privileged are what created oppression in the first place. He examines what privilege looks like in every day life. Whites, men, and heterosexuals have more freedom versus people of color, women, homosexuals, and the disabled. Douglas C. Baynton (2014) argues the disabled are the weakest in terms of physical, mental, emotional ability. Baynoton (2014) goes on to state that because African Americans and women suffer the…

Memphis has long been known as a city of racial diversity and as a city fully aware of the value of civil rights. Dr. King, namely, planted roots here that had a lasting impact on Memphis culture. However, today’s modernizing world no longer seeks the peaceful protests King emphasized; rather, it supports insane claims and expectations. We live in a world where one race thinks another considers itself superior in some way, regardless of which races are being compared. Ridiculous is the best word…

Speaker, in which he shares his experience as an Asian-American assimilating to American culture. In his narrative he explains how his parents were not "typical" Chinese parents who adhered to cultural practices of being "pushy, status-obsessed, rigid, disciplined, or prepared." (Liu p.2) His parents instead decided that their children should "mix and match, as they saw fit, whatever aspects of whatever cultures they encountered." (Liu p.2) And in doing so, his identity took the form of social…

individual racism can be when I first realized skin color and how I was different. On t.v., in the news, my color was always treated unequally. I remember when I first learned about slavery and the civil rights movement in school. My teachers in elementary school made us watch a movies where we seen black people being attacked by dogs, lynched and beaten. Honestly, after these days of school I was terrified, I thought I was a bad child because of skin color. At this age, I didn 't understand how…

Christianity is the mainstream religion in America culture and it has a great influence on America society. Among the christian culture, the doctrine of salvation is of the most important. America people hold the view that only the ones who are elected by God are saved. They believe that they are the God’s chosen people so they can be saved and…

The most powerful country in the world is going through a revolution that it has never experienced before – the aging population of America. The aging process starts from birth and continues throughout the life cycle. In each growing stage there is a label attached – baby, toddler, teenager, young adult, middle-age, but the over 55 group has numerous labels – senior, senior citizen, older person, elderly, old codger, old bat, geezer, hag, and so forth. The last segment of our population is…