(b)Connect: Waverly is told not to question the rules just figure it out on her own. Waverly uses the rules to make her own chess strategy. (c)Extend: Waverly Jong is a young girl who lives with her mother, Mrs. Jong, and her two older brothers, Vincent and Winston. Her family is of Chinese descent and they live happily in busy Chinatown, San Francisco.
Jong’s family of five resided on Waverly Place in San Francisco’s China town on a warm, clean two bedroom house that sat above a small Chinese bakery (Tan). She further describes a sandlot playground located at the end of their two block alley,
According to Sumi’s answer on her culture background she displayed some deep culture value by maintain her own culture despite of the discrimination against her dressing code as a Muslim lady. She has been in the United States for seventeen years but her lifestyle is the same as she was in Kismayo. This concept apply to the “melting pot vs pluralism” because in American almost all the system try to Americanized the immigrate culture such as changing the name, changing the way they dress up, and the way they socialized themselves. It reminded me about “Facundo the Grate” story. Now the teachers don’t need to Americanize the students name because many parents give them American name.
In order for this to work both cultures need to first build the relationships and establish a sense of trust between each other. Then, they need to be empathetic towards each other. In this case it is not where you are sympathetic for someone who does not understand the new culture around them, but you put yourself in their shoes and try to understand the difficult circumstances that are in front of them to help close the gap and not make it
Lindo Jong grew up in China, and she moved to America and had a daughter Waverly Jong. The relationship between Lindo and Waverly comes out in “The Red Candle” and “Rules of the Game” stories. At the beginning of The Red Candle, the narrator discusses the nature of promises. Lindo promises to keep the honor of her family by marrying her husband. However, she had difficulties in her marriage.
Many people have different cultures that can result in having many cultural conflicts. In the book Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan, the protagonist Koly has many conflicts due to her culture. Some of Koly’s conflicts are that she did not know if she would like her husband, and her Sass left her in the city. The first conflict that I noticed was that Koly did not know if she would like her husband.
Cultural differences is something important to the author herself that somehow helps her to become what she is really today. In the beginning of the novel, there are many traumas deal with cultural differences that the author undertaken. One of the traumas she experienced is when she 's in the United States living with Melvin and his mother, she felt like "she doesn 't want to wear American dress" (Le 16,17). This is understandable when a six-year-old girl wanted to keep her Vietnamese traditional culture. And because she is young,
Cultural collisions can have a negative or positive effect on people. Trying to change such a big part of you and the way you have always lived can be very hard on people. Others will choose to embrace it. Nwoye’s sense of identity was challenged with the introduction of Western ideas into the Ibo culture. Nwoye started out the novel sensitive and confused, but the cultural collision of the British colonists and Ibo people affected Nwoye, positively to the point of changing cultures and leaving his clan.
In Asian customs it is considered inappropriate to live with a man before being married and getting your hair done at a salon was wasteful when you could do it yourself at home. Lindo didn’t approve with Waverly’s lifestyle and criticized it; since she tried her best teach Waverly about Chinese character. Whenever her mother tried to teach her, she said it was to old fashioned and never took an interest in her culture. Waverly identifies and an American, even though she has a strong Chinese
Her mother says, “Is shame you fall down nobody push you.” Meaning Waverly can't blame anyone for her lack of success but herself. Choosing between American and Chinese culture causes Waverly to feel lost in life her way of life. The Chinese cultural values her mother tries to teach clashes with her new American lifestyle. Their tradition only allows an obedient child to live in the household.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an overview of how paratext was affected by cultural factors in the Korean and Chinese version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, one of the bestselling novels in children literature, is popular in Korea and China. Paratext, surrounding the main text, contains cultural complications. Scholars have started to recognize the importance of it.
Throughout the entire novel, the mothers and daughters face inner struggles, family conflict, and societal collision. The divergence of cultures produces tension and miscommunication, which effectively causes the collision of American morals, beliefs, and priorities with Chinese culture which
Scene 1 Both: (Black background) Hello ladies! Welcome to Culture Identity! Jade: Do you or anyone you know find it hard to balance your culture and the American culture?
In our textbook it talks about a cultural happy ending in relation to time. Something that is unfinished is seen as wasted in North America. A lot of the time in North America if a movie, event, a meal, an interview does not end well we see it as not going well despite everything that came before it. It is almost as if all the prior events and memories leading up to the unhappy ending are forgotten. I was watching a show that explains different aspects of how our brains work called Brain Games and it touched on the neurological side of happy endings.
Ms. Tran had a difficult time adapting to the new environment. She experienced culture shock. She also left everything she had and her culture in Vietnam to be in the U.S. and freedom. Likewise, in the story “ Blaxicans “ Richard states “ I recognize assimilation” … Laotians have never in the history of the world, as far as I know, lived next to Mexicans… They don’t like each other (Rodriguez).
