Salon Community Report

Kolker begins her book by examining the Vietnamese’s culture of money saving. One of the main characters in this chapter is Hen Le. He worked twelve years of manual

Although Karen has made great strides in the business world she also faces some struggles. Her first major problem is that she is a woman with no international connections. Being a woman is hard enough to gain respect and work your way up in the business world, having connections are very important in businesses like Merrill Lynch because a lot of people making big accounts are international client. Her next big problem is hiring people. She has to meet with them many times before she decides if they are good enough to work for this company. She has a big responsibility to make the company successful and if she hires a bad worker it is costing the company mega bucks. Another problem she has is Chung. He is her first Taiwanese worker and she is very unfamiliar of these different cultures and how to incorporate them in her sales. Along with the unfamiliarity of Chung and his

Jook-Liang looks at the mirror and tries to think that she is Shirley Temple after Poh-Poh reprimands that she is useless and ugly. Conversely, she finds that she is not that beautiful as Shirley Temple and it makes her feel uncomfortable. Actually, Grandmother’s rebuke makes her realize her inadequacies. Because of point of view, the traditional Chinese thinking that a girl is useless deeply affects Jook-Liang’s thought about the people around her and herself.

- All assessments must be carried out under realistic commercial pressures and on paying clients.

Lia Lee was born into a Hmong refugee family with very bad epilepsy. Her parents Foua and Nao Kao, where stubborn but caring, and gave up everything for Lia 's life. At the Merced Community Medical Center both doctors and nurses gave almost all of their time to Lia. Just as oil and water doesn’t mix, the Hmong system of beliefs and Western medical system did not combine well either.

Loung is tired of hearing how women are supposed to be sweet, kind and delicate. She wants to be independent and wild like the girls she sees on T.V. One day when Loung was playing with some friends she had accidentally hit Li and cut her lip. After she went home she sat in her closet so angry and ashamed. Meung sits outside the closet doors and consoles her. Telling him it was an accident Muang proceeds to tell Loung “You are not a boy, You don't need to play so aggressive” (58). Loung acts a different way at home than she does at school. Being a proper girl is a very important aspect of the Cambodian culture. Being proper and having the best etiquette is a way to show how high your status is. “Women demonstrate their high status through proper behavior. This includes both proper comportment and correct actions. Women are to walk slowly and softly, be so quiet in their movements that one cannot hear the sound of their silk skirt rustling”.(Ledgerwood 112). Loung starts to wear more revealing clothes as she grows older. She puts on makeup and flirts with boys as she sees the other girls in her class doing. When her brother starts to notice he gets angry at Loung, Accusing her of throwing herself away to impress the kids at school. This causes all of Loungs Cambodian friends

Asian American women immigrants took the notion of caring for the body, nail care specifically, and made it into a profitable job. Asian American women immigrants made nail care into a profitable job by providing the service of cleaning nails, but also by catering to the customers need of having someone else do the hard aspects of bodily care. For example, they take in the toxic chemicals needed to complete nail care and do so with a skill that many who visit nail salons lack. Additionally, Asian American women immigrants participation within the nail salon industry has also assisted the industries overall growth as Millian Kang notes in There’s No Business like Nail Business, “…nail salons in the United States grew from 32,674 in 1993 53,615 in 2003.” () Ultimately, Asian American women immigrants capitalized on the notion of care and employed themselves in a now booming industry in order to create mobility for

The Black community’s ears are attuned to the sounds of the salon—the drone of clippers, scissors snick-snipping locks of hair, gossiping voices muffled by the hum of a hooded dryer. But Chicagoans might hear something new as they sit in the salon chair: medical advice.

In the New York Times articles, “The price of the nice nails,” and “Perfect nails, Poisoned workers” by Nir the NYtimes journalist (2015) describes how the manicurists of NYC are being exploited by their employers, underpaid and bear ethnic prejudice due to lack of legal investigation. The manicurists are subject to work in poor health and safety conditions meanwhile the owner enjoys the luxuries of profitable sums by wage exploitations. The average cost to do manicure is roughly $10.50. Therefore, the workers are underpaid and are always under tremendous pressure to complete the task quickly. In addition to that ethnic discrimination plays the vital toxic role where certain race dictates the fate of the others. The law enforcement has done the bare minimum to investigate the nail salons and the employers are rarely prosecuted for labor violations.

He claims himself as a businessman, not a poet. “I am just a businessman, not a poet. It is the poet who is supposed to see things so clearly to remember.” (29) The businessman does not meticulous as the poet but Unlike poetry, being businessman has to be straightforward and supposes to see a whole picture not as details-orient as poetry does. He states that he feels uncomfortable with Mr. Hương, Mr. Chinh’s cousin, because Mr. Hương expresses extreme Vietnamese cultures. “Huong struck me as being of this tradition — as surely his father must, too, for this is how an otherwise practical people learns an attitude such as this.” (33-34). He feels uncomfortable when Mr. Hương expresses the custom Vietnamese manners and does not say indirectly truth when Khánh’s ask what happens with Mr.

Mrs. Lama lived her whole life as a good housewife and as a sincere employee of a salon. she had a complete happy family with a cute baby girl. She had learned fluent English in this last two years. Also, she had learned driving after coming to USA. Moreover, she got an esthetician’s license

Do, Minh Hong T. Tieng Viet: Introduction to Vietnamese Language and Culture. 3rd ed. Sacramento: Cosumnes River College, 2004. Print.

To successfully achieve her goal of a more profitable company Helen must rely on the support of the workforce. As resistance to change is common human behavior the

The beauty salon has become an almost iconic figure in Western culture and Southeast Asian culture as well as in modern generation. The beauty salon is where a woman goes to have their hair and nails done, but is also a

Each year new beauty trends come up and influence the society into trying them. Ever spent hours in a hair salon? How about a nail salon? Some woman can last hours in a chair to feel beautiful and nothing feels better than having the hair and nails all done.