Pocket of Values
...Joy Luck Club" a reader experiences a complete comparison between two cultures, being american and chinese. The average person upon completion of the book will start to realize that maybe what he or she values is not as fullfilling as they think. Family and Loyalty It is quite strenuous to think that we dont value our family's as much as ourselves, but until a person witnesses how much the chinese value their loved ones, and even distant relatives, the fact that we live in a fairly self-centered environment becomes more ovious. Dragon Ladies : Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire by Sonia Shah (Editor). Paperback - 250 pages (October 1997) South End Pr. Asian American feminism is a political hybrid linking very different cultures. "We all share the same rung on the racial hierarchy and on the gender hierarchy," asserts Sonia Shah, the editor of this appropriately diverse collection of writings. In it, Shamita Das Dasgupta and her daughter, Sayantani Das Dasgupta, comment on both raising and being third-world activists in the American Midwest, teetering outside the approved boundaries of largely white feminist groups and the Indi...