Unit2TheStruggletoBeanAll-AmericanGirl.pptVIP

Unit Two The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl ABC: American Born Chinese ? What do they suffer? What is their image? Famous Chinese American Writer Amy Tan (谭恩美): born on February 19, 1952, is a Chinese American writer whose works explores mother-daughter relationships. In 1993, Tans adaptation of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film. The book has been translated into 35 languages. Tan has written several other bestselling novels, including The Kitchen Gods Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetters Daughter and Saving Fish From Drowning. Famous Chinese American Writer Maxine Hong Kinston(汤婷婷）: born in 1940 in Stockton, California, where her parents operated a laundry. The Woman Warrior, Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, her first book, won the nonfiction award from the National Book Critics for its vivid portrayal of life in a Chinese American community. Her latest book is China Men About Culture Culture has several distinguishing characteristics: 1) It is based on symbols 梐bstract ways of referring to and understanding ideas, objects, feelings, or behaviors梐nd the ability to communicate with symbols using language. Symbols allow people to develop complex thoughts and to exchange those thoughts with others. Language and other forms of symbolic communication, such as art, enable people to create, explain, and record new ideas and information. 2) Culture is shared. People in the same society share common behaviors and ways of thinking through culture. 燭hey all collectively create and maintain a country抯 culture 3) Culture is learned. While people biologically inherit many physical traits and behavioral instincts, culture is socially inherited. A person must learn culture from other people in a society. In all human societies, children learn culture from adults. Anthropologists call this process enculturation, or cultural transmission. 4) Culture