Issues_Of_Chinese_American

Issues Of Chinese American In the book Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston addresses the issues of her identity as an American born of Chinese immigrant parents. As a child she rejected the Chinese culture, she didn't understand the traditional values,she also didn't like the way girls were being treated because they weren't born as a boy. As she becomes older she starts to accept the values. She re-aquaints herself with her own past and her parents' past. In " No Name Woman" Kingston thinks about what her mom told her about her aunt,and what happened because she had no traditional values.Her mom talks about how her and her sister were getting dressed, she noticed her sisters big stomach.First she didn't think anything of it, until her sister started to look like other pregnant women.She thinks my sister can't be pregnant, her husband has been gone for years.The village had been counting down to birth. The night the baby was suppose to be born the villagers invaded her house.They wore a white mask.They started throwing stuff like mud, and rocks. They even slaughtered the animals,they destroyed everything.Kingston remembers what her mom told her," Don't tell your father know that i told about, kingston, girls, started, girl, sister, mom, chinese, being, white, past, know, hair, told, think, talks, say, said, remembers, people, happened, because, accept, villagers, values, traditional, thinks, talk, stuff, starts, something, shopping, shook, quiet, pregnant