Scar

Question: True or false? "Family and honor should take priority over the rights of the individual family member." What do you think An-mei and her mother would respond? Would they think the statement is true or false? Would they be somewhere in-between

Families are an essential part of live. With family, individuals potentially live a better live them their elders. The stories, memories, and experiences elders’ covey provides a promise, well-built generation. Many first-generation adolescents particularly possess the challenges between the outside world and family complications. There is always a division that that never overlaps (similar to parallel lines).

In the novel, a mother named An-mei Hsu tells The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, Scar the second part of the first story, Feathers From a Thousand Li Away. She tells the story about her mother (who is unnamed), her grandmother Popo is very aggressive and angry towards An-mei Hsu. This is because she re-married after her first husband died. She was supposed to remain a widow. Also, she married a man who had more than one wife, and Popo did not abide by it. She married out of her own will, which went against Popo's will.

While reading Scar, I have noticed that An-mei Hsu’s mother takes family honor as a priority. I say this because when she was making soup for her grandma, she “cut s piece of meat from her arm. Teas poured her face and blood spilled to the floor. She took her flesh and put into the soup,” (48). An-mei Hsu shows the devotion and perseverance many individuals have for their culture. This demonstrates that she treats her cultural traditions as a priority rather than her individual rights, and in this case, her health. An-mei Hsu’s Mother portrays that she understands that she has obligations, but also that she will do what ever fits her.

This also relates to An-mei Hsu because although her Auntie disrespected and mistreated her, she also took family honor as her supremacy. From the criticism to the beatings and the insults about her mother and how she will turn into arrogant person, An-mei Hsu still respected and “came to love [her] mother,” although the stories about her were a disgrace.

Overall, An-mei Hsu and her mother’s decision about "Family Honor should take priority over the rights of the individual family member,” is in-between. Trualse <==== (the combination of true and false).

Chinese Parents -____-

While reading an article called Why Chinese Parents are Superior, i have concluded that their ideas of how Chinese parents are superior are irrational and and generalized. This is because I know many Chinese parents that are not strict as the so-called “strict parents”. Parents are parents. And their nurturing and ways came from their previous experiences (their parents), so if ones parents are fearful and ungrateful, then that does not mean all Chinese parents are like so.

Here is another controversial idea considering what Chinese parents are:

“What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to override their preferences. This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist; things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up,”.

This implies the idea that parents need to understand the idea that happiness overturns fear. For instance, id Chinese parents do not allow their children to hang out with their friends, this is will prevent them to becoming socially active. Chinese parents assume that it is okay for them to scream, yell, and argue with their children is okay. It ruins their life on a larger scale. Also, they will become behaviorally abused.

First of all, what are superior parents? Is their a handbook on  how parents should treat their children? So, what are inferior parents? Are Chinese parents better them any other group of people? This article is ridiculous; it makes me hate Chinese people even more, just saying.

Stereotypes are unneeded in our society today. Categorizing parents and/or children into a “dumb” and “smart” group crates discrimination and unnecessary comments. As a result, family is family. Parents are parents. And kids are kids. Get over it.

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Further Connections

 There has been a lot of change in the world, specifically the Middle East. For example, the uprising in Egypt and other revolutions are a great impact on our society. This also relates to Animal Farm. The rebellious animals portray the strength and determination they had to kick the human out of their territory, to establish a live of their own. All they want is happiness and equality.

In Egypt, before the Hosni Mubarack reigned, he enacted the Emergency Law. This states that it:

Is a governmental declaration that may suspend some normal functions of the executive, legislative and judicial powers, alert citizens to change their normal behaviors, or order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans

 This perpetuates the idea that because Mubarack is an important person in Egypt, he assumes that he is powerful and allowed to do whatever he wishes. Mubarack does not understand the fact that his choices also impact the citizens of Egypt. But, the citizens abide by the laws because they fear the actions they may encounter if they do not (death, threats, jail, etc.) In similarity, in Animal Farm, the “lower animals” were also in a common struggle. After they overthrown the unfair human, the rebellious pigs came along and made it worse. The disrespect and unfair roles each animal had to follow we forced by the pigs. In similarity to Mubarack, the animals didn’t understand they fact that their actions may backfire upon them. The do not understand that there are more “lower animals” then each other (the pigs). The negativity and disrespect will soon wreak the respect and fear the inferior animals show. All in all, an individual who are considered as leaders, need to understand that their actions and words are important to the people who are obligated to follow them

Another example that exhibits the connection between Animal Farm and the revolutions are the choices the Egyptian residents decided:

  “The Islamic group, one of the most organized opposition movement’s in Egypt, said they have no intention of implementing, or attempting to implement, an Iranian style revolution in the country. They prefer democracy and elections.”

 This demonstrates that organizational skills and the ability to connect with the Egyptian civilians at the same time take a lot of trust and patience. This is because the amount of days the people starved, fought, and left their families creates stress and instability. So, having someone to communicate with and maintaining a positive stance will soon accomplish their needs. In Animal Farm, the ability to set a constitution that every animal agrees with is one of the significant events. This is because, establishing a laws all people have to follow usually turn into protests. People do not be fond when an individual obligates someone to do something they do not want to do. When everyone is endearing in a common purposes, success will soon be accomplished.