PAN GU vs. GENESIS The question of creation has always been asked throughout history and will be continue to be an enigma for the rest of time. How did we [Human Beings] come to be? Every culture in the world has it's own theory or legend on how we were created. In the United States, the Chris...

Your life could have been incredibly different if you lived somewhere else. An environment has a huge effect on people's identity. The geography in any environment gives people obstacles and opportunities that they must adapt to. This adaptation causes them to teach others their behavior. This lear...

American Circumstances and Chinese characters The Joy Luck Club is a book by Amy Tan containing vignettes of four Chinese mothers and their four American-born daughters. The four mothers are Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair. Their daughters are June Woo, Rose Hsu, Wave...

I've never actually supposed that "globalization" to be the certain part of my life. Probably, the reason is that when I was born this process has been already expanding far and wide, so I just never had another life environment except life within permanent globalization. On the othe...

The Joy Luck Club - Sexism Is it fair to judge someone by their sex? Sexism is a problem common to both Chinese and American cultures, and as such they are met by most of the characters in the novel. The women were looked upon as an inferior being. They had little or no status in society, and...

The "Great" Encounters of China and the West from 1500 - 1800 For three centuries, between 1500 and 1800, Europe and China experienced extensive contact, which had enormous influence on both cultures. The greatness of Chinese and European cultures was demonstrated by their ability to ...

The day after the American plane bombed the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, our core teacher took an entire period telling us how bad the United States was, and how we should never bow down to them. Every student in my class including myself was furious. One year after, the tragedy was written in our...