Friday, September 19, 2008

not/You/ Like You

Trinh T Minh-ha artical talks about inside/outside and point out that to be inside that you are 100% from your country. To be outside you are American and part your culture. his point of view seem to be a matter of acceptance and assimilation into another society specially westernization. Thinh T Minh- ha raises the question of identity and losing it. You my be from your country born there then you enter the west you run the risk of losing your identity by assimilation. The Core of you is and will all way be there. eg. If you from china you are Chinese and learnt the ways of the china, but if you adopt the Western way you lose some of your identity. The core of one self is who you are. Sui Sin Far is a reliable source because she experience both the Chinese ans Western side and has been expose to bias from both side. As she write to china American, that my experienced what she had went though in China commutictating about this issue is not open but in the West you can talk about in more. Sui Sin far she not bitter or anger but like other to know about the struggle within.

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