I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.
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No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every day, and my grandfather, who attended university in Scotland, would smoke his pipe after dinner.
My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything.
The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family... but as the head of the family.
I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.
The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.
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