Summary Of Taien Ng's Shun Wai
Taien Ng’s Shun Wai tells the story of a Christian Canadian mother who criticizes her Hong Kong parents because they have a Shun-Wai. A Shun Wai is a shrine to honour a dead ancestor. We should be free to believe what we want to believe and another person cannot say that what we believe in is wrong. The freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression is a human right and nobody can take that away from us. In the story Shun Wai the mother criticizes her parents for having a Shun Wai. The mother believed so much in her Christianity that she thought that other people’s beliefs were wrong. In the story, she said “These things aren’t any good. You shouldn’t worship anything but God.” (55) No matter how much we believe in your religion we cannot
say that somebody else’s religion is wrong. We must respect other people’s beliefs and religion. In the story the mother believed so much that her religion was the only one that was right that she broke the Shun Wai. This is even more wrong because damaging another person’s religion items just show pure disrespect to that person and their religion. The story Shun Wai reminds me of a similar even in my life. I used to have a friend name Amari. He thought he knew more than me about morality just because he was Christian. I thought that was very disrespectful because he was basically telling me that he was better than me just because of his religion. This is like the experience that the grandparents with the mother in Shun Wai where the mother thought she was better than her parents. This was wrong because a person from a certain religion should not be thought of as better than a person from another religion or even no religion. We should all treat religious and non-religious people equally and respect their beliefs. The mother in Shun Wai should not have broken her parent’s Shun Wai. The story reminded me of a similar experience where someone thought that they were better than me just because if their religion. We should all respect other people’s belief’s and expression. No matter how right we think our beliefs and religion are.
say that somebody else’s religion is wrong. We must respect other people’s beliefs and religion. In the story the mother believed so much that her religion was the only one that was right that she broke the Shun Wai. This is even more wrong because damaging another person’s religion items just show pure disrespect to that person and their religion. The story Shun Wai reminds me of a similar even in my life. I used to have a friend name Amari. He thought he knew more than me about morality just because he was Christian. I thought that was very disrespectful because he was basically telling me that he was better than me just because of his religion. This is like the experience that the grandparents with the mother in Shun Wai where the mother thought she was better than her parents. This was wrong because a person from a certain religion should not be thought of as better than a person from another religion or even no religion. We should all treat religious and non-religious people equally and respect their beliefs. The mother in Shun Wai should not have broken her parent’s Shun Wai. The story reminded me of a similar experience where someone thought that they were better than me just because if their religion. We should all respect other people’s belief’s and expression. No matter how right we think our beliefs and religion are.