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Chinese vs American Family
Don’t Tell Me What to Do!
[…] family provides for the children when they are born, during their upbringing, and adult life. Asian children are expected to reciprocate this care especially when their parents get older. While they are growing up Asian children are expected to do what they are told. They are not asked their individual opinions (e.g., what they […]
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Transpacific Transposition: 1965 to Present
History of Chinese Christianity in North America (3)
The author brings us to the present by giving five factors that since 1965 have created the awakening and dominance of independent-minded and indigenous evangelicalism in North American Chinese Christianity.
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The Christian World They Made Together: 1850–1911
History of Chinese Christianity in North America (1)
The author explains the growth of the Chinese diaspora and Chinese immigration to the United States and Canada as well as the events that gave birth to North American Chinese Christianity.
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Saving China, Saving Ourselves: 1911–1965
History of Chinese Christianity in North America (2)
[…] As debates between reformist and revolutionary advocates intensified, Chinese Christians were deeply engaged. They believed that China’s salvation required integrating Western technological prowess and spiritual values (i.e., American democratic ideas and Christian faith) into Chinese cultural heritage. Before the Sino-Japanese conflict of the 1930s, this optimistic point of view made sense.1 One of the […]
Cultural Identity—East vs West
Or Why They Cause Me Stress
In Asia I experienced a lot of cultural stress but didn’t know why. Not only was I trying to adjust to a different culture, but I was also dealing with unconscious American and Japanese cultural values.
Guanxi
Or, Do I Have to Give Them Something to Make Friends?
When we lived in Asia, I was constantly asked for things and especially for money. Being a typical American, I was offended with their constant asking. I discovered later that asking for favors was a means of developing relationships.
Saving Face
[…] very nice. Later I felt guilty because I had told a lie. I really didn’t like the food. At the time I didn’t realize how much my American and Asian heritage were clashing. Americans tend to think it more important to tell the truth—saying what they think and not being as aware of how […]
Reciprocity—Goes Both Ways and Keeps on Going
[…] were too lazy to work for what they needed. If they took care of themselves, they wouldn’t need to ask for help. Therefore, I felt justified in getting angry with them and judging them as wrong. Then God began to convict me that my responses were not very loving, or kind, or in fact […]
The Impact of Buddhism
Even When It Is More Cultural than Belief
[…] others see what the person needs and provides as they can. Those with a family identity do everything together particularly celebrating a birth, being ill and recovering, getting married, having children, celebrating birthdays, and dying. They believe that people were born to be together and will only survive if they stay together. Much of […]
The Importance of Filial Piety
Especially at a Distance
[…] by giving the parents a grandson to carry on the family name. If a child is not married, they may continually ask when they are going to get married and once they are married parents will continually ask when they are going to have children. If they don’t have a son, they will continually […]