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Wendy Yang (GENDER (FAMILY (PARENTS (father: the youngest son in his…

- - - - play a faily popular dress-up game in China. more than 90 per cent of the players are girls.
      - the male and female player is relatively the same for dota and games like it.
      - many other girls suppose it is wired for girls as my age to play dress up games. they say it is too childish and girly for me, regardless the truth that I am a girl.
    - - people are arguing over feminists.
      - answers that demonstrate girls as brave, rebellious instead of quiet and peaceful would always receive more thumb-ups.
      - I think publics are now over-emphasizing on female's independence and boyish characteristics.
    - - on some website, girls are still regard as a substitution to boys.
      - under news of a girl underwent sexual insult, there are comments like they deserve it.
  - - - father: the youngest son in his family. grandparents like him most among his other siblings.
      - mother: the second girl in her family. complain about how her parents would ignore her demands and pay attention to her younger brother more in her childhood.
      - gender discrimination is never a thing I feel from my parents.
      - my mother sometimes tells me a good marrige is more important than a good career for women.
    - - form father: love me a lot. never consider gender as a problem.
      - from mother: being surprisingly agitated when come to the topic of gender discrimination. though I never feel they actually incline to my cousin.
    - - my older female cousin gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl and love both of them deeply.
      - another older female cousin is studying hard as in nurse school
      - my younger male cousin shoulder the responsibility of the well-being of his family in the future.
    - - aunt: say nurse is a suitable job for female but not male
      - anut: like the twin boy more than the twin girl.
  - - - second grade: playing with barbies and watching barbie related movies
      - fourth grade: being called girlish by classmates
      - first-fifth grade: acting exactly according to teachers' requirement, never break a rule
      - getting bad grades on P.E.
    - - play with mainly girls, never talked to one of a male classmates for the three whole years.
      - girls as reliable leaders while boys are considered to be rebellious.
    - - more willing to make friends with boys and become close friends with some of them.
      - boys begin to be regarded as more compelling leaders than girls
    - - worked with two other girls in research group. both of them were really helpful.
      - one American boy mentioned the gender discrimination is strong in China, and I argued against that.
  - - - enjoy the company of both boys and girls
      - some of the boys will make dirty joke from time to time, which is really disturbing.
    - - many male elders are the leader. female elders some time shoulder the responsibility of daily chores at home.
    - - mother told me that some of the house cleaner said to her that she should have a son to inherit the legacy.
- - - - all of my classmates speak Beijing dialect.
      - some teachers' pronounciation is hard to follow.
    - - some classmates and teachers' unstandard pronounciation will be laughed at.
      - the Chinese teacher consider pronounce each and every character correctly (according to the dictionary) very important. the pronounciation is tested on important national exams.
    - - begin to meet people from different part of China or diffferent pant of the world, who speak different language and have different accent.
      - my accent could be easily affected by others when I spent a long time with them.
      - during the summer program, no one make fun of my Chinese accent, which is what will happen in my own classroom back home.
      - many students abroad take Chinese, though they sound funny to me.
      - gave three of my friends Chinese names during the summer program.
  - - - Chinese sounds mild and peaceful. the language itself is fluent and lack of strict rules. (never learn Chinese grammar at school)
    - - English sounds louder and more energetic. For formal English, there are more descriptive adjectives.
    - - people speak in different dialect hit me with different first impression, both in English and in Chinese.
      - sometime I may choose my friends based on how they sound like. for instance, I feel more comfortable making friends with people with northern Chinese accent.
  - - - my dad (a neurologist) start to learn English at the age of 38 in order the read scientific primary research papers.
      - quoting: " when I use the word primary paper, I refer to the paper in English.
      - most of the scientists around the world publish their work in English, regardless of their own mother language.
    - - many good novels and articles are written in English or languages other than Chinese. Meanwhile the translation will always miss some of the meaning.
- - - - many readings from Western country are about the equality between races, which is aspiring to me, though the situation of discrimination is never severe.
      - some of the readings are over-stating the disadvantaged races, sometime they are even more privileged.
    - - in China: the discriminition used to exist between Han people and Manchu-mainly because of the conflict of interest.
      - globally: the advantaged races often cast discriminition on disadvantaged people. People are not good at accept others that are different from themselves.
    - - Most of Chinese people consider themselves have no discrimination .
      - some of the users tand to compliment and pursue anything that is produced abroad, regardless of ther actual quantity.
  - - - reluctant to meet and get involved with other races
      - kind of ignorance toward the topic of races and ethnicity.
      - Many find black people dangerous. Though they never meet one in their real life.
    - - more open to people from different races than the older generation
      - some of my cousins used to mock me for enjoying Hollywood and European movies and not enjoy domestic movies or TV series.
  - - - many of my friends are seeking education abroad because they think they are better in some way.
      - many peers are willing to meet people rom different races and shows no appearant discrimination or inequality to them
      - some consider the white people are some how more siperior than other races.
    - - reluctant to meet and get involved with other races
      - kind of ignorance toward the topic of races and ethnicity.
  - - - find sometimes the past-disadvantaged races are over-emphasized.
      - unhappy about some of my classmates get bonus points on exams such as Zhongkao and Gaokao for their minority indentity, while they face exact same challenge as I do. it is not fair.
    - - one of the students from my summer program never speak to Asian, and ignore our greetings.
      - hard to be closely related due to cultural difference
      - the securtiy check-point tend to spend more time on Asians and Mexicans instead of Americans