Good afternoon everyone! How's everyone doing today? Last Thursday, we met in the computer lab and started on our blogs. At that class, we read a essay called “The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl”. The title of the reading may suggest that the author-Elizabeth Wang would experience success if she became an “all-American girl”. She did whatever she could do about her transformation, but she failed. She felt so sad about it. Must she relinquish her own cultural identity to assume another cultural identity? My answer is “No." If I need to give advice to her, I will tell her a nice little proverb-“human family under the sun”. We all live in one place under the sun. I remember one famous person said: "As the world is moving towards the Global Village era, with freer movements of people and instant communications between countries, more of the hitherto homogeneous societies are becoming plural ones", even though the physical distances still remain the same. For our young generation, we embrace the whole world. We don't have to transform into another cultural identity. Whereas, we enhance abundant knowledge from different countries and different cultures. Just like I said, “human family under the sun”, we now live in a global village.
I hope everyone haves a great weekend and see you all on Tuesday!
-Hai, Zhan(Odin)
I agree with you. There is no need for someone to change their own race. Anyone can be successful. It's just a matter in believing.
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-Marlene
I agree with you. People do not need to change for other. You just need to be who you are.
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