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can you tell me your opinion about

Expressing doubt

I'm not sure about

Deloying strategies

that's a good question

I need to really think about that

Your opinion/expressing a point

my view is that

in my opinion

from my perspective

as far as I am concerned

let's begin with

Agree/somewhat agree

yes

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I somewhat agree

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it depends on

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what do you mean by that

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To: 757578781@qq.com
Subject: Congratulations for Getting RICH ( $ _ $ )

Hi Maria the Entrepreneur (TOEFL star),

It's great to hear from you in 2040. I am glad that you are getting rich. Your contribution to the theory "a trembling left eyelid means fortune" is immeasurable. But anyway, the thing is that our English teacher want us to write a personal email as a practice. So I write this email to you. (Yay!)

Okay, I was halfway done writing this email and realized that I cannot send an email more than 2 years further (Probabily because QQ doesn't know whether it will survive until 2040 or not.). So I guess I will congratulate you for escaping (graduating) from Kang Chiao instead. I wish that you are satisfied with your university offers. Yeshyesh!

Who's the real TOEFL star?

Cheers,

Flora Yi from 2020

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Positive Words to Describe Cultural Traditions

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Positive Words to Describe Cultural Traditions

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appreciate

agree with

admire

interested in

want to try

regard

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Negative Words to Describe Cultural Traditions

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Negative Words to Describe Cultural Traditions

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not easy to understand

permit

accept

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a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: Cowboys and Indians are American stereotypes.

1. a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.

2. a plate made by this process.

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Words nearby stereotype

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

British Dictionary definitions for stereotype

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for stereotype (1 of 2)

A too-simple and therefore distorted image of a group, such as "Football players are stupid" or "The English are cold and unfriendly people."

Cultural definitions for stereotype (2 of 2)

A generalization, usually exaggerated or oversimplified and often offensive, that is used to describe or distinguish a group.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: Cowboys and Indians are American stereotypes. a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.

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Know Kongfu

Have pandas as pets

Good at math

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Explain the stereotypes that you know about your culture.

Catholic people marry with Catholic

Shanghainese marry with Shanghainese

Shanghainese like sweet food

Shanghainese dislike people from other cities

How do you feel about these stereotypes?

Do these stereotypes hold any truth?

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Overview

People don't always say what's on their minds. One reason is that they are unwilling. For example, someone might report smoking a pack of cigarettes per day because they are embarrassed to admit that they smoke two. Another reason is that they are unable. A smoker might truly believe that she smokes a pack a day, or might not keep track at all. The difference between being unwilling and unable is the difference between purposely hiding something from someone and unknowingly hiding something from yourself.

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT may be especially interesting if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that you did not know about. For example, you may believe that women and men should be equally associated with science, but your automatic associations could show that you (like many others) associate men with science more than you associate women with science.

We hope you have been able to take something of value from the experience of taking one or more of these tests. The links above will provide more information about the IAT and implicit attitudes; we will periodically update the information to reflect our current understanding of the unconscious roots of thought and feeling.

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People don't always say what's on their minds. One reason is that they are unwilling. For example, someone might report smoking a pack of cigarettes per day because they are embarrassed to admit that they smoke two. Another reason is that they are unable.

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Bias are inevitable

Most people have biases towards people different from them (ex: asians might thought africans as "negative")

Bias towards the role of female and male is universal

Sometimes we don't even realize that we are biased (ex: I am slightly associating female with family and male with career but I never thought of this)

Biases can be affected by cultural and family backgrounds (ex: my mom quit her job after I finished kindergarden to take care of the family; my dad is dedicated to his job all the time. So I tend to associate female with family and male with career.)

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As the cigarette smoke clears across the screen of the movie trailer, we see that Asian American men are the ones holding the guns. Not Korean, Chinese, or Vietnamese men in subtitled gangster films that make the international film festival rounds, but Asian American men in a documentary set in Atlanta, Georgia. What happened to the American dream for this so-called model minority? This seems to be the question this forthcoming film's executive producer Spike Lee and director Eunice Lau hope we will ask.

Featuring the often-ignored lives of Asian American gang members and their families in Atlanta, the documentary foregrounds a common struggle of immigrant life: finding a way into power structures and social networks that do not readily, if ever, open up to outsiders. A-Town Boyz is a timely reminder that across the United States, the "model minority" stereotype commonly used to understand Asian Americans is badly in need of a reality check.

Originally touting the economic self-reliance and social stability of Chinese and Japanese Americans, the term "model minority" was coined by journalists in 1966 as a way to praise Asian Americans for not engaging in civil unrest or advocating for state support, like African Americans were doing. Over the ensuing decades, the category of Asian American and the term model minority have widened to include immigrants from South Asia, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia due to their generally high educational achievement and representation in professional work fields.

The elaboration of the " tiger mother" phenomenon in recent years has further refined the stereotype of elite educational and professional success of this large community through popular psychology. Predictably, the trope has also created negative consequences, ranging from quotas set for Asian American college applicants to the " bamboo ceilings " that keep Asian Americans from advancing into the higher echelons of corporate America.

Nearly fifty years after the term was coined, we still see the model minority stereotype promoted in numerous contexts, including education, politics, and the media. The stereotype also remains a cornerstone of imagery produced by those in the advertising industry, who project Asian Americans as upwardly mobile and successfully assimilated into middle class America. While these representations are laudable for moving Asian Americans beyond crass racist stereotypes, as I discuss in my ethnographic study Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers, they also tend to forward an elite version of this population. Even some of the advertising executives I interviewed conceded that the wealthier Asian Americans they sought to reach did not encompass the full diversity of this population.

Enter the main characters of A-Town Boyz. Distancing itself from "tiger class" fixations on model minority success, the film's website describes the documentary's subjects as "non-achievers," a counterpoint to those who are "good at math and play the violin." To choose not to be model is more complicated than it would seem-in this case, the characters' non-model methods of economic and social survival were borne of limited opportunity for social integration and economic advancement.

Some of the boyz.

Meanwhile, policy studies confirm that income gaps are widening within the Asian American population, complicating the narrative of uniform Asian American advancement. Increasingly a case of haves and have-nots, the immigrant promise of social and economic mobility is inaccessible for A-Town Boyz because they don't have the social capital to enter corporate America or entrepreneurial work.

Ultimately, the model minority stereotype does little to shield Asian Americans from everyday racism.

A-Town Boyz isn't alone in offering counter-narratives that challenging the model minority myth. Historians of Asian America have shown, for instance, that the unskilled laborers that immigrated from Asia in the 19th century and early 20th century enjoyed little of the social mobility and economic success of post-1965, highly skilled laborers. Likewise, the variance between those with professional degrees and struggling wage-laborers replicates this dichotomy, as I documented in my book Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley. The promise of the Silicon Valley tech bubble was far more graspable for teenagers who had the social networks to help create opportunities for them than those whose parents worked in assembly line jobs. This pattern is, in a different guise, the premise of the ABC's clever and nuanced sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, based on chef Eddie Huang's memoir, featuring a Taiwanese American family trying to project success.

Ultimately, the model minority stereotype does little to shield Asian Americans from everyday racism. The subjects of A-Town Boyz, for instance, offer poignant recollections of the slurs they've been called in Atlanta. This is not surprising, given the perpetuation of stereotypes in popular media. Consider Tina Fey and Robert Carlock's acclaimed new Netflix comedy The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Despite the complexity of characters such as Kimmy's gay, African American roommate Titus, the heavily accented nerdiness of her boyfriend Dong is almost unwatchable. The relentless mocking of this Vietnamese-American Chinese food delivery boy character is an important reminder that an emphasis on upward mobility and success does not guarantee respectful representation.

Nearly half a century after its inception, the model minority stereotype-and its accompanying racism-has proven difficult to displace in the US. We can only hope that media like A-Town Boyz will help do the important work of recognizing the so-called non-achievers and their economic struggles. Hopefully, the film will surprise and challenge viewer notions of Asian immigrants in the United States.

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Fifty years on, the overachiever stereotype is still hurting Asian Americans

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As the cigarette smoke clears across the screen of the movie trailer, we see that Asian American men are the ones holding the guns. Not Korean, Chinese, or Vietnamese men in subtitled gangster films that make the international film festival rounds, but Asian American men in a documentary set in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Why does dystopian fiction exists
Why is it so popular today
Where did dystopian literature originate
What is the book Utopia about
How do dystopian societies maintain control over their citizens

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To: 757578781@qq.com
Subject: Re: Reflection about Culture

Dear Maria,

Hi, Maria! I received your email regarding culture! Remembered what we had learned in English class? We can never imagine just how amazing and surprizing different cultures are. I believe that from discussing different aspects of different culture, we can all recieve deep insights from this discussion.

I agreed with your opinion that cultural differences is very common and important to our daily lives. To build up on this, I think what makes different culture important is their corresponding identity. Imagine a world everyone have the same belief, dressing, and passion. Wouldn't that be crazy and ridiculous? At least, to me, humans have no meanings of existence when everyone agrees upon the same culture, or when everyone's culture can be united. It is the cultural difference that makes our world interesting and colorful.

Also, to your words regarding accepting the existence of cultural differences, I agree with you. Disputes are common. We do not have to agree with everyone on earth as long as we respect them. By saying respect, I mean that we should not bother or "bully" them. As well as how we see the story. Our sympathetic heart tolds us that the man loves his son and wants his son to be healthy. Our sympathetic heart at the same time reminds us that the parents of the sacrificed boy will mourn and pray for their dead son just as the murderer. From different perspectives, we can obtain very different interpretations of a single case. But what's more, if there's a third choice (such as medical care) that can satisfy both the man and the sacrificed boy, why not choose the third choice?

To me the bigger problem is that one can only insist his or her own culture under the circumstance that he or she does not violate the others' culture. In the story, although ritual sacrifice is part of the man's culture, but a human sacrifice......probably doesn't apply to the boy's family. At least to me, sacrificing one's life for another's sake is quite unfair, isn't it? Nah......insisting one's own culture but violating others'......doesn't make any sense to me......at all.

Oh, by the way, this is not the only email I wrote to you (I had wrote another funny one before I recieve your email). However, instead of sending to Maria from the present, the email is for Maria from the future. So look forward to it!

Talk soon,
Flora Yi