The Joy Luck Club Essay

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An Intercultural Marriage is a fusion of two souls involving numerous cultures and backgrounds .When two cultures combine together, there may be significant challenges they have to face. A culture may differ from one to another due to behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, religions, customs, and all other products of human work and thought. Culture is a system of shared beliefs and values around the world. The story, The Joy Luck Club, focuses around the lives of Chinese mother and Chinese-American daughter. The story takes place when Waverly concocted a way for Rich to meet mother. The mother and daughter hold very different principles, where the mother is still very traditional to her Chinese upbringings the daughter is much more “American”. …show more content…

She is having totally different thoughts from her mother and especially about Rich. “So what do you think of rich? I finally asked, holding my breath. She tossed the eggplant in the hot oil and it made a loud, angry hissing sound. So many spots on his face, she said.” Her mother is so critical of rich because he was not only Chinese but also younger than Waverly. It’s really hard to adapt another culture, that’s what happened with Rich when he came for a dinner at Lindo’s house. He was doing mistakes again and again even when he didn’t know it was a mistake. “He had brought a bottle of French wine, something he did not know my parents could not appreciate”. Some of the families don’t drink wine and Waverly’s family was one of them. “When I offered rich a for,.. Chunk fell on his crisp white shirt and then slid into his crotch”. He was trying to impress her parents by eating with a chopstick but it went all wrong because he don’t know how to eat food like Chinese people. Waverly is humiliated, and realizes that there will never be a good time to tell her mother that she is marrying

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