实践主题

Do some research on Conflicts between two generations in America or China and give your comments with proper evidence and reasons.

实践目标

1) To get further and updated information on the topic we discussed in this unit

2) To be able to sustain a long speech on a topic

实践任务

（1）Discuss your views with your friends or classmates.

（2）Use proper words and expressions to show your attitude.

实践要求

Write down what has come to your mind during your thinking and discussion, and organize them into a neat essay.

Sample

Many books, songs, and movies have touched on the issue of Conflicts between two generations in America or China, which scene or words moved you most. What do you think about this issue? Talk about your opinion with some examples or sound reasoning.

教师解析

The Joy Luck Club is one of the my favourite movies, it begins with the main character Ah muir, just returning to the United States from the mainland visit, caught up with a party whose members are all her mother’s lifetime friends and their daughters when mother was still alive. Ah muir is playing mahjong with aunts, sitting in the seat which was her mother’s before. All the four people on the table, with different characters, have their own pains and struggling stories behind. Aunt Lin’s smartness and strangeness let herself get rid of the identity as a child bride, striving to today's position; Aunt yingying has unbearable memories in the past, so she hopes her daughter will be bravely being herself; Aunt Anmei was influenced by his mother, knowing to make voices in front of the fate of unfair; While ah muir's mother, because of the war, got apart from her little children accidentally. Four women are all surviving from the poor, getting through trails and tribulations. They don't want their own daughter to repeat their tragedies.

But four daughters intangibly went through their life in a very similar way as their mother’s. They couldn’t understand mothers’ hard cares, feeling confused, painful. As they mature, just know their mother's well-meaning.

If the mothers in "The joy luck club" represent the traditional Chinese culture, then the groups of girls are the representations of modern American civilization. The attention of author, can say to break the long-standing "center" and "edge" the opposite mode, behind the surface cultural conflict, reaches a deeper cultural identity.

America is such a white culture that is dominant, multicultural society, How Chinese immigrants bear the fine tradition of the Chinese culture, and absorb the essence of American culture, so as to construct something that belongs to this group of cultural identity is always the concern of many Chinese writers. Amy tan is one of those observers to the super borders with multicultural insight. Both novel and movie "the joy luck club", through the intersection of heterogeneous culture, provide for readers and viewers a net which consists of different nations and the dialogues between different cultures. “The joy luck club "expresses not only the young generation chase for the rootless memory, also is not only the confusion and the struggle of ethnic Chinese that being in such a cultural identity dilemma, but through the expectation of the fusion of two kinds of culture, expressed the Chinese people are reluctant to abandon and hide the Chinese cultural identity in order to servility cater to the mainstream culture or in order to squeeze into the mainstream American society, nor to stick to Chinese culture to fight against with the wishes of the white mainstream culture. The film conveys one argue that to downplay cultural identity defined, and to eliminate the culture antipathy. So as to achieve the globalization of multinational culture blend of peaceful coexistence.