Chinese and American Cultures

Chinese-American writers Amy Tan and Mr. Gishu Jen suffer from the concept of mixed identity in both the Chinese and American culture. Along with the expansion of the family line, the drift of the culture itself is not a problem, but in reality, it is natural that the current culture gets a foothold of long-distance culture. It will serve as a background for disorientation between generations. In the novel, Tan and Jen point out the reason for this imbalance in the actively dismissal of the mother's Chinese mother.

When Chinese parents try to train American children, there will be conflict between Chinese and American culture. Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" fully expresses the conflict of culture between China and the United States. There are four mothers and four daughters, each emigrated from China, and each daughter is born in the United States of America. It is difficult for all daughters to understand their mothers and the ways and means they want to teach them. - Amy Tan of Joy Luck Club as a whole inserts various conflicts between mother and daughter. Most of these relationships are already extremely fragile, alienated through heritage, history, and expectation. These differences bring about a recurrence of conflict between the two specific mothers and daughter's bonds. There is a first relationship between Weber region and her mother, Lind.

While Waverly combines Chinese and Western culture, Lind is experiencing the rich experience of China's growth. Throughout the novel, these cultural differences caused a great confrontation between Lindo and Waverly. Waverly noticed that her mother's way of doing things is outdated and embarrassing. One example is to bring her mother to Waverley and cut her hair. "Auntie Anne can cut me," Lindo suggested. This cultural confrontation between the East and the West society is evident in the relationship between Lindo and Weber region, which is inevitable as they are different ways of raising children.

These differences represent cultural contradictions between the two cultures. One of the big differences between Chinese and American culture is how we communicate with each other. "The Chinese culture can be classified as a high-context culture and American culture can be classified as a low-context culture" (Brooklyn University) In short, there is a tendency to explain that Americans may miss the details of Chinese culture Yes. They say what they are saying. Since speakers and listeners share the same assumptions and knowledge, these details are omitted. This is a major obstacle to communication between mother and daughter. My mother talked to her daughter many times so I hope her mother can accept these basic assumptions. My mother is still far from the Chinese culture and it is very unhappy to know how much daughters wish to have this culture in their lives.