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Apr. 19th, 2008 01:08 pmI'm working on my last lit paper (Born To Strangers: Exploring Asian-American Mother-Daughter Relationships through Literature) and I stumbled up on this quote:
"Chinese-Americans, or any minority people, can't just disappear into the mainstream. You can't change your psyche and personality so that it's indistinguishable from most Americans. The only healthy thing for Americans to do is to just realize that we are multicultural people living in a multicultural country and that you just have to take all these complex, disparate customs and languages and try to become a healthy integrated society."
--Maxine Hong Kingston (author of "The Woman Warrior", one of my new favorite books)
"Chinese-Americans, or any minority people, can't just disappear into the mainstream. You can't change your psyche and personality so that it's indistinguishable from most Americans. The only healthy thing for Americans to do is to just realize that we are multicultural people living in a multicultural country and that you just have to take all these complex, disparate customs and languages and try to become a healthy integrated society."
--Maxine Hong Kingston (author of "The Woman Warrior", one of my new favorite books)