Report of the Joy Luck Club

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     One problem that ethnic Chinese must face is the culture conflict. As descendants of immigrants, they must try their best to merge the Chinese culture with the American culture. Although they can speak fluent English right now and have accustomed to the American life style, they still have some 「Chinese Thought」 in their mind. They care much about what their parents think of them. For example, in the movie, the daughter Waverly decides to play chess which she ever gave up for a period of time again, but her mom tells her it is not so easy to do that. Then she loses her confidence and becomes weak. Her mom’s behavior and attitude really has a great impact on her even though her mom didn』t notice it at all. She even married a Chinese man just because she wants to please her mom. Besides, in order to let her mom accept her fiancé, she taught him many Chinese manners before they met her mom. She observed her mom’s look carefully when she met her fiancé. She didn』t tell her mom they are planning to get marriage when she found that her mom seemed not satisfied with her fiancé. We can see it from these examples that even though they born and live in American, they still be influenced by their parents who have deep Chinese traditional convention more or less.



    Sometimes, the way that they deal with the problems is potentially influenced by these Chinese traditional thoughts. In the movie, the daughter Waverly has a talent in playing chess, which makes her first feels proud and confident. Her mom always shows off her talent in this aspect to their neighborhoods. She didn』t like the way her mom always does so she asks her mom stop doing that. But her mom misunderstands her. Her mom thought she was ashamed to be her daughter. Her mom was raised the Chinese way. She was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people’s misery, and to eat her own bitterness. Even though she taught her daughter the opposite, but still she came out the same way. Unfortunately, both of them choose to use the Chinese way to solve the problem----grin and bear it. They are all the kind of people who are cautious and inactive. They』d like to track all the problems with silent treatment. When they know little about each other, they』d rather not talk than express their real thoughts to others to clear up misunderstanding. I think that is exactly the reason why these terrible stuffs happen and why they are not close to each other.   舉報