The Jade Peony - Personal Blog 8

The book, "The Jade Peony" by Wayson Choy talks about a Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver, Chinatown during 1930 - 1940's. I choose this book because it reflects some kind of ideas to our lives as well. I'm still trying to find out any other new ideas than political system. The characters are full of emotions towards each other. They encounter many conflicts and issues during that time. What I understand from the book during that time is there was a war going on between China and Japan. As immigrant arrived in Canada or USA, their lives changed a lot. My inquiry question is how we can help the locals and the immigrants to improve their education and personality. In terms of personality for the Chinese immigrants, there are many Chinese immigrants are being unfriendly towards other people and to the locals. Not because the Chinese immigrant people want it to, is because their education in their childhood encountered horrible conditions such as being smacked by a teacher or getting yelled by their parents. We can teach them how to treat people nicely but this requires a lot time to achieve this. For the locals, many of them are having troubles with courses especially with Math. Most of the Chinese immigrants are very strong in Math and Physics.

The story is well written and full of interesting ideas. I'm looking forward to read more.