Chinese American Culture

Overall the semester, we have been continuously talking about the cultural differences between Chinese and American, how they were being treated unequally when their first arrival, what kind of the discrimination law they have suffers, and how their next generation, the native-born view’s the previous generation. Nowadays, many of these about Chinese American experiences and stories have put into a film to show people. In the class, we have watched four films, “Hollywood Chinese,” “The Joy Luck Club,” and “The Gua Sha Treatment,” these focusing on the interpretation of Chinese American experiences and the Chinese American perspective on heritage cultural maintenance. Based on these wonderful works, we can clearly see the native born have different
According to the film “The Joy Luck Club.” Although the mothers notice their daughters’ marriage would be not perfect as they expected, they could not do anything because the daughters think the way they maintain a marriage is different from the past. However, they did not know their mother has the more experience than theirs. Since they have failed one time, they know how to fix the problem if they have the second chance. As a result, when the mother gives advices and warnings to their daughters, they are helping them to avoid the tragedy. In other words, the mother is protecting the daughters; at the same time, they would never understand the mother’s position and response until they are on their position of being a
Throughout the three master pieces, they all point out the fact of the Chinese in a realistic way. At the same time, helping audiences to understand the custom in a clear way. Moreover, when someone take his/her own culture and tells the other person who has different culture, an intercultural communication occurs, which is a kind of communication between people whose cultural perceptions. This situation clearly shows on the film of “The Gua Treatment.” This film is a wonderful work, it does not illustrate the cultural differences, but also showing the other factors, such as racial discrimination, interracial friendship, and family relationship. Besides, the “Joy Luck Club,” is also a master piece, it lets audiences understand how the second generation have different perceptive with their ancestors and how they eventually appreciated everything their mother did for them. Lastly, people are alike and different. They carry their culture with them wherever they go, and it influences how they respond to the people they