Color in Chinese culture

look or view those of other races, cultures, and ethnicities. As far as I know the “Othering” could be defined as the way in which a majority group views and treats individuals of other races, ethnicities and cultures. According to the U.S. Census Bureau in this year, the…

woman now, it wasn’t until I was accepted into the Masters Program in School Counseling at Fresno State in the Spring of 2015, when I discover and began to appreciate what Hmong meant to me. Prior to graduate school, I knew little to nothing about my culture and the Hmong history. I also faced many challenges that skew me away from maintaining and accepting my cultural identity. Growing up, I lived in a close-knit community where the majority of the families around me were Hmong families.…

The city of Lexington, and everywhere else in the United States, has a deep history of prejudice and discrimination. From the slave trades taking place in Lexington’s streets to the modern-day Black Lives Matter advocates around the country, prejudices have shaped and defined our society. Prejudice and discrimination affect nearly every minority group. While the African American community might be the most blatant, there is plenty of prejudice towards Latino and other Spanish-speaking groups,…

Within two short years of the start, punk changes music, fashion, and politics(“1970s Punk Culture”). With the shocking new clothing attires, loud angry music, and small acts of rebellion “punk’s raw and freshness divided young and the older generations in two”(“1970s Punk Culture”). Punk was soon seen by older people as a threat to society because it provoked the established. Other than punk having an impact on behavior of people it…

One of my favorite sections of the museum was the Japan Art (Designing Japan) and Chinese section. These sections consisted of statues, landscapes and very few paintings. This section of the museum made me feel like I was literally in another country, which I believe is the main purpose of the exhibition. The exhibition felt and look so real, it literally made me appreciate and acknowledge the Japanese culture. Another of my favorite section was the Mexican Modernism 1910-1950. This section…

He does survey time to time, to study the cultures, lifestyles and eating habits of consumers in Malaysia as well as other countries before he set his target market. After long observation of the market, he targets all ages of consumers for his products. Furthermore, the franchisee license of the…

Some of these obvious physical features include the texture of hair, the color of skin, the shape of certain facial features, the length of limbs, or overall body proportions. These physical variances arise because there is constant interbreeding (blending) between populations over time. Our species is highly mobile and adaptable…

lost identity until the end of the novel. The sense of identity that Jing-mei feels when she visits China is comparable to the Lost Boys of Sudan starting their new lives in America. Jing-mei experiences an identity change when she learns of her Chinese heritage. As a child, Jing-mei never felt that she lived up to her mother’s expectations. "Why don’t you like me the way I am! I’m not a genius! I can’t play the piano. And…

A. Miliann Kang’s ethnographic novel The Managed Hand is comprised of in-depth analyses of the intersections between class, gender, and race in the nail salon industry. Dozens of nail salons across the United States are run by Asian, primarily Korean, immigrants who run their own salons as a way of becoming financially independent in a foreign country. Class becomes a large factor when examining both those who own the salons, as well as the types of people who are customers at the salons.…

stanza 7 in the poem “Fish Cheeks” it says, “After everyone had gone, my mother said to me, “You want to be the same as American girls on the outside." She handed me an early gift. It was a miniskirt in beige tweed. "But inside you must always be Chinese. You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have shame." This means, you will always be that…