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I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.

Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.

I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.