Chinese Dining Etiquette and Customs It is no grand surprise that when two cultures converge together, there are bound to be differences. It is strange to imagine another being embarrassed by their own culture. In the short story, Fish Cheeks, by Amy Tan, she starts out the plot with a very powerful sentence: “For Christmas I prayed for this blond-haired boy, Robert, and a slim new American nose” (Tan 1). This line launches the foundation of her piece by explaining that not only does she long…
Duchampian Sunflower Seeds Ai Weiwei's photograph titled Profile of Duchamp, Sunflower Seeds represents the face of the French-American painter Marcel Duchamp. This photo was taken in 1983 as a re-imagining of Duchamp's Self Portrait In Profile that was completed in 1958, by utilizing a coat hanger. The photograph's present location is the Moriss and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, and is one of the series of Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs, 1983-1993. The artist personally picked 227…
In the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, it shows how Chinese-Americans are affected with the proper english language than Americans. In this essay, Chinese-Americans are represented as human beings who do not have those same high abilities educationally as Americans do. Chinese-Americans have the chance of not being understood, which is a thing that can affect them in life. To show how Chinese-Americans do not have the same high abilities as Americans, educationally, Amy provides an example of…
The desire to fit in and have friends can be found in everyone, even the characters from Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel American Born Chinese. Yang takes the reader through three different stories that all aim to show the importance of being true to yourself. Two of the main characters, Monkey King and Jin, attempt to assimilate into the societies that they live in, which results in the characters losing who they truly are, until they are finally willing to embrace their true selves. While…
well as the setting. This change is when Jing-Mei goes from not accepting her Chinese heritage and culture to in the end accepting that she is Chinese. At the beginning of the short story, Jing-Mei has a hard time believing that she is Chinese. In the beginning, we find that her mother is trying to convince her that she is, in fact, Chinese, “when I was fifteen and had vigorously denied that I had any Chinese whatsoever below my skin… ‘Someday…
Boba is a popular ingredient for many desserts in Asian countries. However, in the United States, boba is rarely used in foods that people consume on a daily basis. Boba is not usually eaten by itself; it can be added to tea or smoothies. It can also be used as the main ingredient for a sweet soup. Having grown up in Taiwan, the country where boba milk tea was invented, I love boba and have eaten boba for many years. It is a treat that I often crave in America, but I have discovered that boba is…
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…
The Chinese continued to stay gallant and fight to be equal citizens of San Francisco. Many feared of their power, so the San Franciscans constantly plotted their elimination. During the years of the 1860s and 1870s, Anti- Coolie meeting occurred. The hate groups would constantly blame the Chinese for financial and economic issues. Alfred Buetell said that the Chinese were a curse to all mankind. They called China a “seething cauldron…
Asian-American Woman and Leadership “When we talk about America’s APIA communities, we are talking about the industry and entrepreneurship of people who have helped to build the United State of America for centuries, from business to science, academia, law and more. The aspiration of these great peoples have reached far beyond anything that our ancestors could have ever dreamed of and have helped usher in an era of unmatched prosperity for our community,” Gia said. It was my pleasure to have a…
During the time, the Chinese Immigrants has been excluded from the United States at one point. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882. It stopped Chinese Immigrants coming to the United States. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the country. Some people might say that the law was passed is because of Economic tension, such as cheap labor, however, in my opinion the main reason that causes the law was racial tension.…