Feminists of the Bidirectional Assimilation

Feminist Of The Bidirectional Assimilation Assimilation is the progress of the American development. It plays a role to critically decide what should be abandoned and what should be blended in to keep the coexistence of different cultures and keep up the pace of the developing society. Kenji Yoshino, the author of “Preface” and “The New Civil Rights,” argues his idea of assimilation that it both includes the good side and bad side. In “The New Civil Rights”, Yoshino cites the idea of D.W. Winnicott to illustrate the true self and false self that true self exposes the authenticity and relies on the protection of the false self. In the “Preface”, he points out covering is a kind of assimilation which hides the disfavored identities in order to blend into the mainstream. However, using too much of false selves damages authenticity. Another author, Julia Alvarez, who writes “Once Upon A Quinceañera”, discusses the different aspects of Hispanic cultural quince for the 15 year old girl. Alvarez argues the whole quince is like a little practical wedding and it’s doesn’t show any power of woman at all. Quince is not assimilation and restricts Hispanic women with cultural expectations. Women are thought as weak group and need special care of men. And the old cultural ceremony and customs like quince gives the boundaries of women figures. However, the appearance of bidirectional assimilation critically gives up the old customs which limit the women’s rights and capacities and blends progressive ideas from the American culture and other cultures, promoting the feminist movement and protecting women to show their authenticities.
Assimilation promotes the feminist movement by persuading the woman stop being a idealistic but a progressive pragmatic. In today’s world, the high speed development of economics and high class education make the concept of equality of women and men become widely accepted. The public also requests the equal competition of different sexes. Thus,