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When ignorance plagues your mind, you find it difficult to remove the rose colored glasses from your eyes and let the clarity of reality seep in. We all have the ability to scratch the surface of any culture, to know that Egypt has the Great Pyramids or China with its Great Wall. But when we are fortunate to be given an opportunity to find out how, why, and when, it is then, that our minds …

…up how culture is truly engraved in a person regardless of how or where they are raised. “In the Chinese way, you are taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people’s misery and to eat your own bitterness. Even though I taught you the opposite, you still came out the same way.” As rich and mysterious as the Chinese culture appears from the outside, inside it has its skeletons. Bibliography The Joy Luck Club, 1995,