Asian American X by Austine

In the first story in the Asian American X, the author Jenny Cheng was struggle with the problem weather she is consider as a Taiwanese or an American. She is upset because she doesn’t know where she should belong. Her brother, who also is in the same difficult position discuss a problem about different categories of Asian Americans in the States. They came out with three different categories at last; FOB’s, Twinkies and the Floaters. She considered herself as the Floaters if she really has to be put into the three of them, but she didn’t like to be labeled in either of them. Living in these two different countries with different races and ethnicity culture, she as an Asian American get lose very easily. She has no clue of what direction she is going and often felt like a person living on a no man land. Throughout her own cultural experience, it reminds her of the bat story. This bat wants to be the best of both the bird world and the mammal world; obviously, it can’t and it is unfair for him to do that. I really feel (感受很深) deeply when she talks about the bat story. But I also disagree with her a little bit with the three categories part, if you think of it in another way or view this problem differently, there could be more categories of these Asian Americans and also not all things are as bad as she described and mentioned. After she talked about the problem of weather she should be, she also changed her view of all these things. I, agree with her conclusion saying that no matter where she is from or how she looks; Jenny Chen is Jenny Chen. This is the truth that will never change.

In the second story, the author is the “Twinkie” type of people that Jenny had mentioned in her article. She start to hate everything about Chinese when she grew up in America. She avoid it so that it will be easier to get along with the Caucasians. She thinks she had such bad luck to be a Chinese. But everything changed after she start to learn Chinese dancing, she saw those people who are also the same as her for being a Chinese American. But what they are different from her is that they are confident with themselves, they are not sad for being a minority besides a Caucasian or by how they look. A really big change of her happened by the time she visit in China, she start to love speaking Chinese and everything about china and Asian culture. At last she mentioned that to be a happy person, you have to have two things; that is, to have confidence of yourself and that you ca be an American with out giving up being a Chinese. I strongly agree when she says about the confident in one’s self.

Both of the articles really expressed what I think of myself also of how we always have the problem of living in two different countries.