Chinese immigrants came to Canada and settled into a new culture.

Chinese immigrants came to Canada and settled into a new culture. In the process of settling into a new environment, they have encountered new problems and conflicts between the their original culture and the new culture, creating a culture clash. The conflict involves not only the internal family structure and the external social structure but also the way of preserving their traditional culture and language. Immigrants are destined to deal with two different cultures. Truly, …

…about grandmother's daily habits, he cannot tell "his Grand old One, his aging mother, that what [is] somehow appropriate in a poor village in China, [is] an abomination" in Canada. Choy shows us that each successful generation of immigrants identities with their original culture and more with the culture of their new home. It is the oldest generation who is the keeper of Chinese cultural identity, an identity the younger generation has rejected and lost.