Good Daughter
Most parents desire their children grow up in best society environment and they should become successful in society. That really is the parents concern but sometimes that interfere in their children privacy. Almost Asian parental do not give their children independent at all and the children could not decide the life themselves. How many time have you argue to your parents when they interfere to your privacy ? This rush to develop the relationship between the parents and their children in two difference cultures. In Hwang's point is any immigrant have struggle between two culture. It 's not happen in Hwang family only. It almost happen in other immigrant who live in The United States. In Caroline Hwang essay :''THE GOOD DAUGHTER" (15) she wrote about struggle between two generation. First generation is her parents and second one is herself. She and her parents have some conflict thought. First ,She went to school for PH.D in English literature but her parents want her go to law school. Second, her parents just expect her to marry someone Korean and give them grandchildren who look like Korean. Third , Hwang expressed her own feeling re
Hwang is marginalism between American and Korean culture. Like Hwang parents people who came The United States 30 years ago, two years before Hwang born. She could not go with Korean culture because she living in American , and she could not go with American culture because her parent prevent that. In this case, my cousin who grew up in American. Finally, the paradoxes that Hwang said in story are the parent never know what their children thought. '' I identify with Americans, but Americans do not identify with me'' Hwang accept American society , American's way , American culture, but American do not accept her. Asian parental just want their children get marry which people from same country. Hwang parents worried her children should not speak Korean, forget Korean cultural . They just want their parents let them decide the life , school themselves. Finally, he break up that girl then live in family. In Hwang case , she said :" my parent did not want their daughter to be Korean but they don't want her fully American, either. She wrote:'' my parents wanted me to go to law school'' (16).
Common topics in this essay:
Americans Americans,
PHD English,
Americanization Hwang,
American's American,
,
Al Hwang,
Caroline Hwang,
Third Hwang,
American Korean,
American American,
hwang parents,
american culture,
identify americans americans,
children immigrant,
decide life,
identify americans,
americans americans,
hwang essay,
struggle culture,
americans identify,
korea culture,
americans americans identify,
school phd english,
american parents hwang,
korea culture hwang,
|
Acceptance Essays
