What I mainly took
away Dodson’s chapter 10 is that the Chinese think of themselves as strictly
that…the Chinese community. They do not step away from their culture, or they
are reprimanded. Dodson introduces Grace Wang, a freshman student from China
attending Duke University. Grace tried to make peace at a riot over the Tibetan
protests of 2008. She never once spoke out against China, however, just by acting
in a public mediation, she was branded a traitor. Her family was forced to go
into hiding, and she was told if she ever returned to China, she would be
murdered and cut into 10,000 pieces. This example shows just how serious China
is about loyalty to their country. Media plays a large part in this, as the
Chinese people are only exposed to stories, books, movies, and news of China
prevailing. Dodson says, “Chinese nationalism knows no borders except its
own…”(208). This quote sums up his view on how the Chinese view themselves.
While I think this may be true for some people in China, I don’t think it is
fair to say this for everyone. I know many people from China that are attending
school here in Chicago. It seems that most of them have both positive and
negative things to say about their culture. While they love where they come
from, they find things that have room for change. Just because they share these
views with me, they do not feel they would be shunned from coming home.
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