Overseas Chinese

a. In her work “Conflict, Coping, and Reconciliation: Intergenerational Relations in Chinese Immigrant Families,” author Min Zhou discusses the generation gap between Chinese immigrant parents and their children. As Zhou states, the Chinese immigrant population in the United States started as individuals but has now evolved into a family community. These immigrants come from different geographical, socioeconomic, and educational backgrounds. Despite all their different stories, one thing that is…

against social injustices. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston is a memoir that invites readers into the life of one Asian American writer. Kingston narrates the story of several women in her family, and how they are oppressed and silenced by Chinese culture. During the narration, Kingston provides her own voice for those women in the culture that did not have the opportunity to speak out for themselves. Meanwhile, in Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen portrays a similar situation where…

Woman Warrior, Kingston gradually finds her own identity by examining heavily weighted talk-stories. Through these stories told to her by her mother and her aunt, she is able to express a part of her which her own experiences cannot explain as a Chinese-American female. Convinced by her mother’s stories, Kingston grew up believing, “we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves” (Kingston 18). As Kingston matures, she recognizes a pattern of silenced women who have lived under male doctrines…

In the criticism, “Questioning Race and Gender Definitions”, Malini Schueller draws light to the expectations of Chinese women and how they are to be quiet and passive in nature. According to Schueller, “The initial story establishes the denial of expression women are condemned to in patriarchy and the cultural stranglehold the narrator must fight in order to express herself” (423). It is this cultural expectation that Kingston rebels against by telling her version of the unnamed woman.…

Every person was born into the culture of their parents and the people around them. As they grow up, they make choices and identify with certain cultural norms. These selections alter culture of an individual. As a result, each and every person views the world in a unique way. One's view on the world is almost entirely based on one's cultural identity. This means that different people may see the same challenges or experiences in various ways, positive or negative. This cultural diversity is…

that pretend to be statues by holding a pose for as long as possible. Rackae was more than happy to take the photo for him. After the photo was taken, we moved on. We had fun watching the street performances, shopping, and dining out. Rackae ordered Chinese, and I ordered Indian. After we finished eating, we ran into the man whose photo we took two more times. I was getting a little freaked out, but I remained calm and cool. When it was time to go, I was relieved. I thought…

“Lost Sister” by Cathy Song presents the universal struggle of women in finding who they are in society as observed in two different environments. The first half of the poem is in China and presents the women as united as sisters, but in the second half in America one sister becomes lost. Song is able to use inclusive terms such as sisters and they to show to juxtapose the you that both relate to the universal struggle i to create a helplessness to the poem that truly encompasses what a lost…

througout the story she is torn apart by two cultures American and Chinese while her mother on the other hand is all for the Chinese culture. In the text we see this many times like when Waverly's mom said "in Chinese we say" and "Chinese people do buisness, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people" This is showing us that Waverly's mother does not care for American culture. But Waverly on the otherhand questions the Chinese culture like when she said "a soup of mysterious things…

I would describe culture as the collection of traditions which form in different communities. These communities could be as large as a continent and a country, or as small as a neighborhood and a family; This variety allows different communities to inspire each other 's culture. My culture is very complex because my family diverse and I am from San Francisco which also has a very diverse culture. I have experienced a lot of different cultures for someone my age, and I personally believe that…

Through our international business studies thus far, we’ve learned when a company does business or expands their business into another country, it’s crucial to do as much homework as possible to discover any and all information about that new country. Among the important information to take into consideration are things like culture, history, politics and geography of that new country. In our past assignments, we specifically explored the potential of a U.S. company going into business in…