American Born Chinese- The Need to Belong The book starts out with three seemingly different tales‚ and then merges them all together. In the book American Born Chinese‚ all 3 stories largely reflect about needing‚ or wanting‚ to fit in. The first tale is about the Monkey King who goes to a celestial dinner party‚ but is denied entrance because he is a monkey and does not wear shoes. He then locks himself in his chamber to learn the twelve disciplines of kung fu‚ when he is summoned to the
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Cultural Assessment of Elderly Chinese Americans NUR/542 Cultural Assessment of Elderly Chinese Americans Chinese Americans make up the largest subgroup of Asian and Pacific Islanders (APIs)‚ one of the fastest growing ethnic groups‚ currently representing 4% of the total U.S. population [4] (Parikh‚ Fahs‚ Shelley‚ & Yemeni‚ 2009‚ p. 7). This cultural assessment will describe elderly Chinese Americans in Flushing‚ New York‚ their ethnic and cultural health practices‚ religious belief systems
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American Born Chinese was a book that I would have initially missed reading because it didn’t appeal to me then. However‚ it wasn’t until the three narratives intertwined at the end that I realized that this was a great read. Jin‚ Danny‚ and the Monkey King all have one thing in common; they try to become something they are not‚ and they lose their sense of identity until the realization of the truth that we cannot fight who we really are. Jin comes to America and desperately tries to fit in with
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When people walk around the land of American‚ it is easy find a group people who look like Asian‚ however‚ they can not speak another language expect English and also they do not understand another culture. With the developing of globalization‚ lots of people move from the motherland to other countries to seek their new life. With this increasing trend‚ there is a new population‚ they have different characteristics with the original country’s. According to “pair of tickets”‚ the author Amy Tan uses
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Within a new trend in the Movies Industry‚ a lot of classic books are selected to be turned into films for the big screen. This is the case of the epic poem Beowulf‚ which dates from Anglo Saxon times and is considered as the earliest poem in the modern European language. In 2007‚ the American director Robert Zemeckis produced Beowulf. In my opinion he chose this poem as a source for a Hollywood movie because it carries valuable information about revelations and controversies of Old English social
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Americans have changed Chinese Food The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer Lee demonstrates clearly what Chinese food has become around the world. From the history of fortune cookies and the real meaning behind them‚ to the real history of what General Tso’s chicken really is. Certain areas of this novel may change the way certain ordinary people view Chinese food. Then novel states “There are some forty thousand Chinese restaurants in the United States” (Jennifer Lee). This crazy number is
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Hong Kingston uses ghosts to represent a battle between American and Chinese cultures. The two cultures have different views of what a ghost is. The Chinese believe the ghost spirits may be of people dead or alive. Chinese culture recognizes foreigners and unfamiliar people as ghosts because‚ like American ghosts‚ they are mysterious creatures of the unknown. Americans view ghosts as spirits of the dead that either help or haunt people. American ghosts may or may not be real. There spirits are there
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Struggle for Identity: American Born Chinese Asian American students today are faced with the issue of identity in the American society. They are faced with this issue because of their unfamiliar background to the American society. They want to fit-in and become accepted in school’s diverse environment. The graphic novel‚ American Born Chinese by Gene Yang‚ exemplifies the issue of Asian American students search for identity in the American society. He wanted to target teenager that are struggling
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the world- the American alligator and the Chinese alligator. The American alligator lives in the waters and lowlands of southeastern United States. The Chinese alligator is found near Shanghai‚ but the numbers have declined so much that this is now an endangered animal and is virtually extinct. The Chinese alligator is much like the American alligator in its habits and appearance. Other closely related reptiles are the caymans of Central and South American. An alligator
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