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MULTICULTURAL ELEMENTS IN JOSS AND GOLD - Coggle Diagram
MULTICULTURAL ELEMENTS IN
JOSS AND GOLD
Social issues
Racial Tension
Li An deals with social tensions when one of Chester's friend who is a Malay reporter named abdullah said :
“I told you the Chinese cannot push us too far. This is
our country. If they ask for trouble, they get it.”
The riots May 13 1969 also takes place in the novel.
“The corner coffee shop was deserted, and the roads were
dark and empty.”
“...those people threw pork in our people’s backyards and
started a lot of trouble.”
Forbidden relationships among races
Gina, who is a chinese woman that has an affair with an Indian man named Paroo but they are not confident to tell their family about their relationship as Gina has a strict father
“So what? Who isn’t scared of her father? But this is the 20th century. We are all Malaysians. What is this nonsense about cannot marry Indian, cannot marry Chinese? Even Malays and Chinese are marrying each other now.”
Family relationship
Relationships between Daughter in law and mother in law
Relationship between grandmother and grandchild
Relationship between husband and wife
He tries to make up for the time he had been neglecting her because of work.
Henry loves Li An
Relationship between father and son
Gender Issue
GENDER PAY GAP:
Ellen doesn’t the get same wages as men. Her job at Weston Allen doesn’t pay well for the same work she has done along with men.
“...a lower salary for the Malaysian men, who were all scrambling for promotion, and the lowest pay for women like soon.
Belief system
Christianity
Grandma is a good Christian as she reads Bible everyday. However, she never attends any church since she says that God will always save her. That shows how much a believer she is.
“She said Christians didn’t have to go to church; Christ would save her when the last trumpet called. Not like the devil worshippers who fed the hungry ghosts on the seventh month…”
Value system
The value of loving one’s profession
Henry is a young scientist. He is very devoted to his work.
He even work on weekend to check on his experiments.
He has shown interest in Science from a young age.