understanding, I will set examples of China and America. First of all, there is a big difference between China and America in the food. In my personal view, Chinese food is more fresher than America. Chinese people preferred noodles, rice, and dumplings as main course, and China has a long history of diet culture; the pattern of the food variety is very rich. Chinese farmers’ market and supermarkets are everywhere, even in the absence of a refrigerator can also live, because shopping is very convenient
Jing-mei originally believed that in order to “be Chinese” one must live in China and abide by the stereotype of Chinese people; after her visit to China, she finds that “being Chinese” is accepting the Chinese DNA in her blood and understanding the culture. In the beginning of A Pair of Tickets, Jing-mei does not feel Chinese. She repeatedly denies being Chinese saying, “… and all of my Caucasian friends agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were” (Norton 179). She had never experienced the culture
Vietnam is a country, which has long history. Chinese dominated Vietnam for 1,000 years. The French also dominated the country for 61 years. However, Vietnam gets most influence from China, which is one of the most powerful countries in the world after America. However, Viet Nam culture and Chinese culture have Differences. First of all, Chinese culture came into Vietnam a long time ago when the feudal came from China and made the most effect to Vietnamese apparatus of government. As the result
place for the visitors because there have many tasty Chinese food and many different Chinese stores which sell the unique Chinese stuffs. Also, Chinatowns are a very important places for the new Chinese immigrants because there are many Chinese American who can help them in this new country. For many new Chinese immigrants, they can find cheap apartment to rent in Chinatown. Also, they can find many Chinese restaurants and supermarkets to buy the food they used to eat, and there are many organizations
stereotype of Asians, yet not wanting to fulfill those stereotypes. The book chronicles his life and decisions beginning from his childhood up until today, where he opens his restaurant, Baohaus. He also writes about the factors which influenced his life, food and hip-hop, and references it throughout his book. The Huangs, like many others at the time, came to America for a better life. When his parents decided to emigrate, America had the job opportunities that were not available in China. At one part
“The consumption of food, which literally becomes a part of our body, is saturated with meanings and symbolisms.”1 It is therefore important for us to find out the special meanings behind the food that we so take for granted, in order to understand the reasons for eating it, and pass these rituals onto our future generations. One of the many rituals celebrated in Hong Kong is Mid–Autumn Festival, which is also called Mooncake festival. As the name indicates, mooncakes play a very important role
Chinese and western cultural differences reflected in many aspects: first, integrity and individuality difference. Oriental countries emphasize holistic and integrated, while westerners pay attention to individuality. Such as traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, Chinese medicine emphasizes the whole, western medicine is different, from the point of view of anatomy, it attaches great importance to the whole of the local. Difference between the overall thinking and individual thinking
The precise number of Chinese who worked on the railroad from 1864 to 1869 is not very clear. The reason they are not clear is because records are incomplete and inexact. The railroad did not list most of the individual Chinese workers by name in their payroll records, instead they listed headmen of work crews or labor contractors who distributed pay to the individual workers on the crew. January 1864, the Central Pacific hired a crew of twenty-one Chinese workers and hired more during that year
you ever been to a different country? Was the food intriguing? Did you feel like an outsider or stranger? China and America share similarities between food, table manners and etiquette. For example, both customs have family dinners. Americans and Chinese eat with their families. Another similarity America and China share is that at dinner both have conversations while eating. They love to talk about news, games, and etc. In addition, American and Chinese families place a variety of dishes at the dinner
their Chinese culture while being surrounded by American society. Mrs. Huang notices that her family is straying from their Chinese identity by doing things such as not speaking the language at home, not wearing the proper attire, and not eating home-made Chinese food. In a last-ditch effort, she forces her sons and husband to give up certain aspects of their American life in order to try to get them to behaving more Chinese. She starts wearing traditional Chinese dresses, only speaking Chinese, cooking