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American Housewife Analysis

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My selected piece is titled “How to be an American Housewife” which revolves around the life of a Japanese woman. I will be touching on 7 concepts using this selected piece. From page 25, it can be seen that the American mothers could be extremely indifferent to the main character as they lost their fathers during the war with Japan. This can be related to “stereotypes’’ in the chapter on Intercultural Relations. Stereotypes refer to negative ideas of a certain party since the past which causes people to treat others in a certain manner. Stereotypes are a result of historical events which is related to the quote as the Americans mothers expected all Japanese to be evil and sadistic due to the past Japanese invasions, leaving them with a negative …show more content…

Parental ethno theories are habits and principles they follow when raising a child which vary for different people. For the above example , Japanese children were brought up with the luxury of their parents shielding them from any problems and paving a smooth path for them but in America the children were not as protected and they were brought up more independently, making their own decisions , showing how different cultural contexts have different child raising …show more content…

Gender differences is like the difference in behavior and actions an individual of a certain gender is supposed to have compared to others. For instance, women have always be expected not to bustle around outside and let the dad carve his career by supporting him at home and keeping him warm and full. This is evident in the above example as the woman had to learn how to be a homemaker from young so as to inculcate the qualities she should have as a caring and dutiful wife and meet the expectations of being appreciative and be just like any women is expected to be

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