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Collectivistic Culture In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

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To begin with, The Joy Luck Club is a group of friends that grow together as a family. They spend time with each other engaging in many activities such as, playing games, going on trips, chatting about recent problems and they create big parties to get everyone together. There are three main female members of the club, theirs Suyuan, Lindo, Ying-Ying and An-Mei. However, Suyuan passes away and so the other members of the group want Suyuan’s daughter June to replace her. June is an American and so the relationship these women have in the club is very new to her. As she gets closer to her mother friends, she begins to discover a collectivistic culture. In my opinion, collectivism is a group of people; primarily a culture acts and thinks as one. There are many …show more content…

The problem mainly lies with her daughter Rose. Rose falls in love with an American man from a wealthy family named Ted. She comes from a collectivistic culture, he comes from an individualistic culture, and so their ways of thinking and traditions clash. His family unintentionally used racist comments and stereotypes. That made her very uncomfortable. Ted noticed that and so proved his love for her by going against his mother. Eventually, they get married and have children. However, their relationship somehow becomes unsettling. Ted yearns for an individualistic and personal side of Rose to appear. It is hard for her because she was raised to think as a group and not as one. Finally, her mother An-Mei confronts her daughter about her past. An-Mei’s mother taught her not to put a worth on herself because if she were to then she can put a label on herself such as worthy or worthless. As a result, Rose was raised to desire nothing, swallow everything and deal with your own anger. Therefore, the problem did not lie with Ted but with Rose. She found herself and her desires and as a result, she and Ted stayed

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