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"A plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires."

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While the minister's family was more formal, Tan's family was very open and comfortable. The two families act differently than each other because of cultural differences in manners and customs. Also, the minister's family was probably caught off guard by the speaker's family's invitation to dinner.

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the speakers family acted very normal, and the minister's family seemed sort of reluctant or hesitant. Their actions are based off of what they're accustomed to.

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The families act very differently at dinner, demonstrating that they grew up with different cultural norms and see different things as rude or as normal.

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The minister family acted how they would in American culture - more tense and uncomfortable as they weren't used to this environment. The narrator's family acted how it would be acceptable in Chinese culture - they were more laidback and relaxed.

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When the narrator talks about all the different foods they have that is expression. When the dad explains the custom of "expression satisfaction" that's an exchange. But there's a bit of racism when Robert "grimaces" at the tradition.

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Both families enjoy dinner in the ways that they would normally - neither holds back. The dad still burps, and although the minister's family "grimaced" at some of the food, they are still able to have the meal together. There is definitely a juxtaposition in their behavior, but neither family choses to change.

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Expression is on both sides because they act in ways their cultures consider normal. The exchange occurs when the narrator's father burps and the minister does as well. The cultural racism occurs when Robert won't participated because he thinks of them as below him. Amy's own view towards her culture is also internalized cultural racism.

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The minister burping at the table was an instance of cultural exhange because he was trying to understand and honor Chinese culture. Additionally, his family appreciated the Chinese food during dinner. The cooking of Chinese cuisine can also be looked at as a form of expression.

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Identity is shaped by what you're surrounded with, how you grow up, etc. It's possible to change but not completely. You can't reverse your upbringing, but you can certainly learn and grow in new ways.

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We said that all the food that Amy's family cooked and the way her family acted at dinner were both instances of cultural expression. We also said that when the minister burped after learning they considered it polite, there was a brief moment of cultural exchange.

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The food Amy's family served was a form of cultural expression. Also the manners - dad's burping. An example of cultural exchange would be when her dad burped, and then after explaining it was a Chinese custom, Robert burped too.

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Some positives is that you can experience different ways of life, and if your family's traditions were cruel/don't fit your personal views then you can step away from it. At the same time though, forgetting them to "fit in" isn't worth it, and is sort of selfish.

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Experience, such as customs, can shape your cultural identity. People can try to change it, but it can be difficult. If you try to think or act differently to change your identity, it won't work.

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It can be impacted by where you grow up and who you grow up with, along with race and ethnicity, your cultural identity can be anything you have an identity of. It is possible to change it, for example, converting to a different religion, but you will likely always be influenced by prior influences. It could be good to change in order to broaden your perspective, change objectively bad views, or to learn about other cultures.

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Amy's mother knows that family is very personal and the things you do together are "sacred" in a way. It's important to be involved in your family's traditions or to "stick to your roots", but it's 100% okay to stray from those things if you desire.

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Your cultural identity is influenced by your parents, where you grow up, and the people you surround yourself with. People can change their cultural identity through choice or forced assimilation. One can try to change but shouldn't for the sake of someone else or just for the sake of fitting in.

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The families had different views on what was polite according to their culture. Amy's family was loud and lively, while Minister's family kept quiet and reserved.

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Some things that influence someone's cultural identity include family, the places they grow up in / spend time in, their friends, their religion, maybe also the music or art they listen to or see. Most parts of culture can evolve, but some things such as family will never fully change.  We think it is important to embrace your culture and not try to completely change one’s identity, that said, we also think it is also important to question things such as religion, and form one’s own identity and opinions.

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There are pros and cons to ignoring one's past. On the one hand, there can be regret and sadness about now knowing much about your culture. But, it can be good to accept change and be open-minded.

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This leads to giving yourself up to assimilation, causing a feeling of detachment and misunderstanding to your family's culture. A positive consequence could be that it makes your life easier, though. It is a temporary satisfaction to assimilate.

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Cultural expression can be seen with Amy's family getting together to celebrate the food of their heritage, and they partake in cultural exchange when inviting over the Minister and his family to the dinner. We think that Amy does have some internalized cultural racism that she has been taught to have by living in euro-centric society. She describes her own culture as "shabby" and wished for a 'slim american nose."

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"Dinner threw me deeper into despair." (dinner can't throw you lol)

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It can be hard to feel like an outsider or caught between people, but the positive consequences of trying to be "normal" are more short-term. Even if Amy may have felt less embarrassed if they had served turkey in the moment, she wouldn't have learned those lessons from her mom and maybe later in life would feel sad that she didn't uphold the family traditions.

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Positive: Sometimes it can help you fit in or feel more comfortable.

Negative: When you try to be someone that you are not and ignore your family's traditions you can lose touch with who you are and can lose a part of yourself. You can also start to feel like you don't belong anywhere if you are always trying to fit in with others.

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Her mother knew the importance of valuing your family and cultural heritage, while Amy didn't really at that age. The family should always be the closest community so you should value it.

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Cultural identity is shaped by family, traditions and customs that people grow up in. The bad parts of culture do not need to be carried on, but most aspects of cultural identity are a large part of who we are and who are family is, and they should not be changed just to fit into society.

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Amy's mother knows that having pride in who you are is important and that being ashamed of yourself is worse than being made fun of.

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Her mom has more experience and therefor a better understanding and appreciation for her culture. Her mom has family pride, saying that Amy's only shame "is to have shame". One thing that American culture has in a sense lost sight of is tradition and presence -- we go everywhere in sweatpants and shovel in burgers while rushing to the next thing, rather than the French, for example, who look dapper everyday, and sit down for meaningful meals with family with lively conversation, and bonding. We sometimes lack intentionality, and family traditions can help us not lose sight of these things too much.

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Ignoring traditions of family in exchange for assimilating into what is "normal" can be harmful to culture and family. Past traditions and customs are a way of upholding ancestors and people who have amazing stories, and trying to become normal can make these stories forgotten.

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"What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas? What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners? What terrible disappoint-ment would he feel upon seeing not a roasted turkey and sweet potatoes but Chinese food?" she repeats questions over and over again.

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"She was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns"
"littered with appalling mounds of raw food"
"slimy rock cod with bulging eyes"
"Tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges"

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"What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas? What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners? What terrible disappointment would he feel upon seeing not a roasted turkey and sweet potatoes but Chinese food?"

helps to depict Amy's anxiety/insecurity around her culture  

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"Tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. A bowl soaking dried fungus back to life. A plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires."

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During dinner Amy’s family shows the ministers family there chinese traditions. Amy’s family wanted to teach her that they don’t have to change who they are because they are different from other people. The author says, “The minister's family looked astonished.”(Tan) This shows how the family felt about Amy’s Chinese traditions/culture. When food was served Amy’s crush Robert reacted, “Robert grimesed.” This shows how Robert acted during dinner, he was not respectful of Amy’s culture. These two families acted different during dinner because both families were brought up in different ways, with different cultures and beliefs.

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This short story has a couple examples of cultural expression between the two families on their Christmas Eve dinner. Amy’s family shows a lot of cultural expression throughout the night with their Chinese values. You could also say Robert shows a bit of internalization with the way he views Amy’s cultural identity.

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A person's cultural identity is shaped by how they were raised and where they come from. Cultural identity is personal to everyone. Meaning everyone’s cultural identity is unique to themselves. It is difficult for a person to change their cultural identity because cultural identity is shaped in the younger years of life as it is a direct result of how you were raised.

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In the short story “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, the author uses diction and imagery to portray the character’s negative views of their own culture and how they feel they must assimilate into the mainstream American culture.

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In the short story “Fish Cheeks,” Amy Tan uses diction and sensory detail to explore the idea that Amy feels the need to hide from her culture and suggests to readers that family tradition and culture is ignored out of fear of being judged.

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In her short story “Fish Cheeks”, Amy Tan uses the personification and irony of Chinese food to explain the cultural divide and conflict she experienced growing up, revealing the white dominant narrative she and other ethnic kids are taught: the only way to experience normalcy in America is to assimilate into the “superior” and “normal” white culture.

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In the short story "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan, the author uses diction with negative connotations to elucidate that, at this point in her life, Tan believes American culture to be superior to Chinese culture, reflecting that, in order to experience normalcy in America, one must assimilate.

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In her short story “Fish Cheeks,” Amy Tan uses hyperboles to underscore how she feels about her family and their food, revealing that she would rather assimilate to American culture than be herself, she has been taught, consciously or subconsciously, that to fit in with white culture, it is necessary to assimilate.

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In her short story “Fish Cheeks,” Amy Tan uses hyperboles to underscore how she feels about her family and their food, revealing that she would rather assimilate to American culture than be herself, she has been taught, consciously or subconsciously, that to fit in with white culture, it is necessary to assimilate.

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In Amy Tan's, "Fish Cheeks" the imagery and/or descriptive language conveys the embarrassment and shame the narrator feels about her culture, supporting that she values white norms and values at a very high level.

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In the short story "Fish Cheeks", by Amy Tan, the use of repetition creates tension and anxiety, which furthers the understanding of how it feels to have your culture "judged" or be put on "display

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In the short story "Fish Cheeks," the author Amy Tan uses the repetition of rhetorical questions to illustrate the narrator's panic and internalized beliefs about her culture.

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In her short story, “Fish Cheeks”, Amy Tan uses the symbolism of the fish to reveal her internalized racism, and to embody (or emphasize?) the cultural divide she feels.

also maybe add something about how she feels out of place...

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In the short story “Fish Cheeks,” Amy Tan uses diction and descriptive language to suggest how Amy adopts a sense of discomfort when it comes to embracing her own non-white culture, revealing the consequences that euro-centric beauty and cultural standards place on children of color growing up in America.

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In the short story “Fish Cheeks,” Amy Tan uses grotesque diction and imagery to express the narrator’s shame surrounding her culture and her own internalized racism, which suggests the idea that assimilation is necessary to be seen as “normal.”

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In "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan, the author uses descriptive language and the juxtaposition of the speaker's family and the minister's family to present the speaker's goal of absolute assimilation and the inherent problems with trying to achieve such a goal.

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In "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan, the author uses descriptive language and the juxtaposition of the speaker's family and the minister's family to present the speaker's goal of absolute assimilation and the inherent problems with trying to achieve such a goal.

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In the short story “Fish Cheeks,” Amy Tan uses diction of ________(words used to describe the food) to explore the idea of Amy hating and being disgusted by her own culture and how others view it, and reveals to readers that Amy was taught to feel alienated and disgusted by her own culture by cultural racism.She describes the food as "fleshy", "slimy", and "rubbery". Each of those words typically have a negative connotation.