The Women's World

"Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who made your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what are the movies?" (Kingston, 5) Nearly all of the first generation Chinese Americans suffered identity crisis resulting from their origin of a conservative cultural traditions and their new and permissive American environment. …

…in conservative Chinese bringing up and in American life, but for a long time I tried to decide which of the two was better and which I should follow" (Chan, 140). We now understand more about such cultural-clashing issues upon reading "The Woman Warrior". As a result, we've learned that new situations require new roles and customs; moreover, try to balance roles of both cultures if we can't depart from the culture of our own origin.