Essay - Ethnographic Study of Chinese Women in America Objective the Objective...

ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF CHINESE WOMEN IN AMERICA

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this work is to investigate the problem of dealing with the Chinese females became much more complex after ********** settle in Ch*****a Town in the United States. Despite ***** Chinese cultural women remain traditional the globalized American culture have many way to influence ***** social life of Chinese women in China Town. By exploring how globalization affects the role of traditional Chinese women in China Town. ***** exploring how globalization ***** the ***** of the ***** Chinese *****, interview with the Chinese female immigrants with different ages, level of education, and marital status will give different perspectives in this research. The project will conduct anthropological discussions on ***** relati*****ship between the culture of ***** transnational Chinese women migration ***** the American culture in the globalized world.

INTRODUCTION

The Ch*****ese and ***** culture is quite different from one another, indeed foreign from one another. Culture ***** described in the work ***** Zheng, and Cui entitled: "Kluckhohn and Strodbeck's Value Model ***** Chinese and American Culture" as "the holistic interrelationship of group's identity, beliefs, values, activities, rules, customs, communication patterns, and institutions." (***** ***** *****, 2008) Culture is also described as "the total way ***** life of a people, composed ***** their learned and share behavior patterns, values, norms, and material objects." (Zheng and Cui, 2008) Culture is existent not only between different "nationalities and ethnic groups..." but ***** well among "communities, organizations ***** other systems." (***** and Cui, 2008) Culture is created by each different "population or group...that best fit their situation and they live in cultures like fish liv*****g in waters. Values, as one element of culture, involve what a culture regards as good or bad, right ***** wrong, fair or unfair, just or un*****, beautiful or ugly, clean or dirty, valuable or worthless, appropriate or inappropriate, and kind of cruel." (Zheng and *****, 2008) Values are stated to "not necessarily describe behaviors in a culture, they provide expl*****nations for ***** we do. They tend to be the b*****is of all the decisions we make and provide criteria for us to assess our own and *****s' actions. There*****e, values can ***** regarded as a hidden part of a culture if culture is liked ***** an iceberg. If we intend to know better about a culture, it is inevitable for us to go deep in***** it ***** study its *****." (Zheng ********** Cui, 2008)

I. KLUCKHOHN & STRODBECK'S VALUE MODEL IN CHINESE AND AMERICAN CULTURE

***** and ***** value model in ***** and ***** culture is related in the ***** of Zheng and Cui (2008). The generalizations that are made the most frequently are cited in the work of ***** and Cui (2008) and ***** s*****n ***** the following labeled Figure 1 in th***** *****.

***** of Chinese and American Values

S*****ce: Zheng and Cui (2008)

II. DIFFERENCES IN BELIEF CONCERNING HUMAN NATURE

***** is addition*****y related by Zheng ***** Cui (2008) *****at while the traditional belief ***** *****s concerning