Part I
1。您什么时候来到了美国？是什么原因驱使您来美呢?
我是1992年来美国读研究生。
2。到目前为止，您在美国已经生活了有多久？
我在美国生活了十八年了。
3。在您安顿到威州之前，您都居住过哪些地方？
来美国就一直住在威州。
4。您最初抵美后，在文化上您都经历了哪些挑战？您觉得这些文化上的挑战哪些容易克服？哪些难以克服呢？为什么？
我们经历了语言和生活的挑战，还有融入美国社会的挑战。生活的挑战比较容易克服因为有朋友帮助。融入美国社会比较难，因为中美有文化的差异，需要比较长的时间适应。
5。您愿意跟我们分享一些您生活中的一些有趣的经历吗？
刚来时没多久，有个美国朋友请我去BABY SHOWER PARTY，我说“BABY 还没有生出来，怎么有SHOWER呢？”
Part II
1。为什么美国被称为文化的大熔炉？你觉得这个表达确切吗？为什么？
美国是一个移民国家，各个民族的人移民到这个国家，把他们的文化也带进来，所以美国是一个文化大熔炉。
2。美国是一个移民的国家，但是移民现象在中国和台湾却还是比较少见。你觉得“移民现象”对于一个国家大文化有着什么样的定位和冲击？
移民可以丰富这个国家的文化。
3。随着时间的推移，中国和台湾在这方面可能会有哪些变化？
中国会开放移民政策，让更多人移民。
4。如果你是一个汉族的话，你的移民经历将你变成了一个少数民族，这种改变对于你自身有什么意义或者冲击？
对我没有冲击。
2010-10-11
2010-10-08
Kitchen Chinese
1. No because I was born here and I feel like this is where I belong.
2. The author used the term “kitchen Chinese” because that was the only time she ever heard or said mandarin, in the kitchen. Language plays a big role because this is Isabelle’s main problem throughout the story. She couldn’t speak mandarin when needed to.
3. I think that the younger has to live up to the perfection of the elder because that is how my household feels like. My younger sister is trying to be better than what I had been. I feel that Chinese American parents do have different expectations than American parents because my parents are immigrants from China. They were raised in different environments than the American parents; therefore they would have different expectations of their children.
4. Isabelle’s discovery of Chinese affects her perception of China by showing her new things she had never seen before. I believe that visiting the foreign place is the way to learn or understand the foreign place. When visiting foreign place, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
5. I have felt like a fish out of water whenever I join a new club, organization, or team. I adapt by making friends.
6. Yes I believe that “all Americans have yellow hair and big noses” is a widespread stereotype. When I visited my cousins in China, they asked if Americans were fat and had big noses. Other people in other countries form their opinions on America based on the media in their home country. I form my opinions on other people based on how they treat other people and me.
2010-10-05
Kitchen Chinese
1. I've always wanted to move to China and around 4 years ago my family decided to move back. So, right now i don't really want to move to any other countries since i've already been to the country i wanted to move to.
2. I think the author chose this title because of her lack of Chinese when she first moved there. Language plays a big role in this story because it's something she needed to communicate with.
3. Yes, i think that it is true that the younger one has to live up to the perfection of the elder. Chinese American parents have way more and different expectations than American parents.
4. Isabelle noticed that learning about her culture and language was very important. I think the best way to understand a foreign place is to actually go/live there.
5. I felt like a fish out of water the first year i went back to China because I only knew the basics of mandarin so it was hard to communicate with people. Even though i went to an International school, almost all of them spoke Chinese and i was like the only one not knowing. It took me pretty long to adapt to this but i learned to adapt by learning the language and practicing how to speak mandarin.
6. Yes, Americans having "yellow hair and big noses" is a widespread stereotype. Americans are known for being fat more than having "yellow hair and big noses". I know this because when i was in China there were people asking " Are all Americans fat? " I form my opinions of other people on how they act.
2. I think the author chose this title because of her lack of Chinese when she first moved there. Language plays a big role in this story because it's something she needed to communicate with.
3. Yes, i think that it is true that the younger one has to live up to the perfection of the elder. Chinese American parents have way more and different expectations than American parents.
4. Isabelle noticed that learning about her culture and language was very important. I think the best way to understand a foreign place is to actually go/live there.
5. I felt like a fish out of water the first year i went back to China because I only knew the basics of mandarin so it was hard to communicate with people. Even though i went to an International school, almost all of them spoke Chinese and i was like the only one not knowing. It took me pretty long to adapt to this but i learned to adapt by learning the language and practicing how to speak mandarin.
6. Yes, Americans having "yellow hair and big noses" is a widespread stereotype. Americans are known for being fat more than having "yellow hair and big noses". I know this because when i was in China there were people asking " Are all Americans fat? " I form my opinions of other people on how they act.
2010-10-04
Kitchen Chinese by Austine (容榕)
1. I would like to live into other country like Japan or Korea. To learn about more of their cultures and languages since i am always intrested in these countries. But i won't consider to uproot my life because i want to keep my original culture but also learning in new cultures.
2. I think she chooses "kitchen Chinese" as her title because cuisine in this country affect her new life in China a lot. She'd also mentioned in the book that there were many different names of food in Chinese and I think she sees the Chinese cuisines as the Basic of all China.Language is a really big part of her new life. She was ashame that she realize she couldn't even speak proper Chinese for being a Chinese/American. That is why Language stand for a big role in this story.
3. Yes, i think Chinese parents had always been expecting more froom their children than those American parents. To respect the elderly are always one of the top important thing in traditional Chinese family. Since these Chinese parents were grown up in china or chinese family, they had been taught in this way and so of course they will expect their children to do the same.
4. Isabelle really changed a lot on her perception of viewing China. Before she go to China, she thinks China is jus her parents' hometown and she also fell bad or embarrased because she was half of it. She doesn't care about these Chinese culture because she doen;t want to be diferent from her classmates and friends. After she went to China, she realized that her origin hometown was quite interesting to discover and to understand it.I think the best way of learning a foriegn language is like Isabelle; go to that country and learn about everything. Like me, for example, I've been learing English since i was in first grade. My elementary school was actually a bilingual school so i had to have english for half day and chinese for half day. And of course, my English has a certain level.(not too bad can read and write and speak) so when I came to the US last year, it wasn't as horrible as i thought. But also, i've notice that it is i would say 80% different from how i learn English inTaiwan, the teachers the classmate the room the everything in here was so different. Then i realized that you don't really know the culture just by learning their language because there are always much more interesting thing than you can think of when you actually live in the country.
5. Yes, i do feel like a fish out of the water even now in the very minute. I always feel like the left out person in the school because first, i do not know anyone in the school. Second, people speak really fast English that i couldn't understand. And third, i don't know anything like i dont know whats next or what am i suppose to do. It was just terrible and a mess.But then i start to meet some people and try to be active at making friend or talking to people and ask questions in class or when i do not understand.
6. The thinking of "blond hair and big nose" is definitly a stereotype of Americans. As you can see on the street, not all americans have blond hair. And obviously I dont think there were actually a lot of big noses. I think now in many countries there are still many people having this stereotype. And my opinions of America, i say that they are "ethnocentric" (just learn this word), Americans always think they are the best and they are everything like there are only Americans in the whole entire world. I think they are too proud of themselves. Like today, one of my classmate asked me "can you speak Chinese?" and I said yes, and i told her that i am from Taiwan and she paused....then she said are you Japanese? i said no i am Taiwanese. And "then" she asked, what is the difference between chinese and Japanese??? WOW!! i thought in my mind because they are acting like they've heard Chinese for the first time like they dont even know Chinese People exist. And this is how i think of most of them.(not all)
2. I think she chooses "kitchen Chinese" as her title because cuisine in this country affect her new life in China a lot. She'd also mentioned in the book that there were many different names of food in Chinese and I think she sees the Chinese cuisines as the Basic of all China.Language is a really big part of her new life. She was ashame that she realize she couldn't even speak proper Chinese for being a Chinese/American. That is why Language stand for a big role in this story.
3. Yes, i think Chinese parents had always been expecting more froom their children than those American parents. To respect the elderly are always one of the top important thing in traditional Chinese family. Since these Chinese parents were grown up in china or chinese family, they had been taught in this way and so of course they will expect their children to do the same.
4. Isabelle really changed a lot on her perception of viewing China. Before she go to China, she thinks China is jus her parents' hometown and she also fell bad or embarrased because she was half of it. She doesn't care about these Chinese culture because she doen;t want to be diferent from her classmates and friends. After she went to China, she realized that her origin hometown was quite interesting to discover and to understand it.I think the best way of learning a foriegn language is like Isabelle; go to that country and learn about everything. Like me, for example, I've been learing English since i was in first grade. My elementary school was actually a bilingual school so i had to have english for half day and chinese for half day. And of course, my English has a certain level.(not too bad can read and write and speak) so when I came to the US last year, it wasn't as horrible as i thought. But also, i've notice that it is i would say 80% different from how i learn English inTaiwan, the teachers the classmate the room the everything in here was so different. Then i realized that you don't really know the culture just by learning their language because there are always much more interesting thing than you can think of when you actually live in the country.
5. Yes, i do feel like a fish out of the water even now in the very minute. I always feel like the left out person in the school because first, i do not know anyone in the school. Second, people speak really fast English that i couldn't understand. And third, i don't know anything like i dont know whats next or what am i suppose to do. It was just terrible and a mess.But then i start to meet some people and try to be active at making friend or talking to people and ask questions in class or when i do not understand.
6. The thinking of "blond hair and big nose" is definitly a stereotype of Americans. As you can see on the street, not all americans have blond hair. And obviously I dont think there were actually a lot of big noses. I think now in many countries there are still many people having this stereotype. And my opinions of America, i say that they are "ethnocentric" (just learn this word), Americans always think they are the best and they are everything like there are only Americans in the whole entire world. I think they are too proud of themselves. Like today, one of my classmate asked me "can you speak Chinese?" and I said yes, and i told her that i am from Taiwan and she paused....then she said are you Japanese? i said no i am Taiwanese. And "then" she asked, what is the difference between chinese and Japanese??? WOW!! i thought in my mind because they are acting like they've heard Chinese for the first time like they dont even know Chinese People exist. And this is how i think of most of them.(not all)
2010-10-03
怎样在博客上上载PPT文档
You have at least two options:
Option One (image files):
In PowerPoint, choose Save-as, and choose an image format (eg .png). When the system asks if you want all slides or just the current one, choose All.
Then upload all the image files that were created to your blog (I usually upload them to Picasa web albums first, and then just link from my blog to there)
Option Two (embedded presentation):
Upload the PowerPoint to Google Docs, making sure that the "Convert documents, presentations, and spreadsheets to the corresponding Google Docs formats"... option is ticked.
Once it's uploaded, choose Return to Google Docs
Open the presentation (by clicking on it)
Click on the Share button in the top RIGHT corner of the Presentation Editor, and choose Publish / Embed.
Click the Publish Document button.
Choose a player size (I like Medium for presentations that are going inside posts), how fast to advance slides, whether to start the presentation as soon as the player loads, and what to do when the last slide is reached.
Copy the HTML that is provided.
Return to Blogger.
If you want the presentation to go into a post, edit the post, go into Edit HTML mode, and paste in the HTML.
If you want the presentation to go into a gadget, go into Layout / Page Elements / Add a Gadget / HTML-Javascript, and paste the HTML into the Content field.
Option One (image files):
In PowerPoint, choose Save-as, and choose an image format (eg .png). When the system asks if you want all slides or just the current one, choose All.
Then upload all the image files that were created to your blog (I usually upload them to Picasa web albums first, and then just link from my blog to there)
Option Two (embedded presentation):
Upload the PowerPoint to Google Docs, making sure that the "Convert documents, presentations, and spreadsheets to the corresponding Google Docs formats"... option is ticked.
Once it's uploaded, choose Return to Google Docs
Open the presentation (by clicking on it)
Click on the Share button in the top RIGHT corner of the Presentation Editor, and choose Publish / Embed.
Click the Publish Document button.
Choose a player size (I like Medium for presentations that are going inside posts), how fast to advance slides, whether to start the presentation as soon as the player loads, and what to do when the last slide is reached.
Copy the HTML that is provided.
Return to Blogger.
If you want the presentation to go into a post, edit the post, go into Edit HTML mode, and paste in the HTML.
If you want the presentation to go into a gadget, go into Layout / Page Elements / Add a Gadget / HTML-Javascript, and paste the HTML into the Content field.
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