Message from njimenez

[Anonymous]

Hearing the lecture on Wednesday help reinforce some of my knowledge of China. I however did not know that a person was not considered to be a full person until they fulfill certain mandatory requirements. How a person could not think of themselves as a person but as part of a linear line of ancestors and descendants. The term “I” was not used but rather “we” or “us” was more common in older generations. After the migration of Chinese people, they began to embraced individuality. Now it has shift back to small family unity. Chinese feel so much pressure to succeed which is not surprisingly the death mortality is higher there. I also did not know that average life expectancy for Chinese is shorter by 20 years when compared to the world because of being overworked. The lecture was very informative and helped me understand why the Chinese people have so much money and still feel so much pressure by their grandparents and or parents. Having this information has helped me understand the family dynamics a lot better which hopefully will make me a better teacher for my students.