Journal Entry #2

Is me, my Culture, Myself

            During Amy Tan's performance in the white house talks about heritage. She sees herself as an American Chinese person with background of a Chinese family.  All his friends from back then, uncles, aunt, Granma are part of her heritage. Also as a writer to feel connected to the people that read her novel to realize that their parents were just like hers, that is not only them that it come from generation to generation that her parents learn from their parents.  Everything come from a long family tree where the heritage that each person gets is pass through the family lines.  The belongings of her and her childhood, the rules that she was taught to follow. The expextations her parents had of her, also she included food that she ate when she was little all this is part of her heritage. The stories her mother told her when she got older. Every single memory she has is part of her heritage and is important for her because it helps her as a writer, to feel aspiration, she feels is important to know about her heritage because is the best way to now about herself.

            My heritage is no different from most of us. I'm was bored in the United States, but raised in Mexico, my father was not part of my childhood and I never knew why until I grow up. I was raised in a poor village with no one to talk to, my mother always was there for me she taught me right from wrong and how to act with manners. Also, she was the one who installed my education and the words "gracias" (thank you) and "please" (por favor).  I was raised with a poor imagination but told stories about my mother had been through. How my uncle die, how life back then was worse than now, how her mother got beat up by my grandfather. All this story, values, morals that she taught me are part of my heritage, the rice and beans I ate, tortillas, all this different type of food I enjoy when I was a kid. All this is important because it represents me and my way of living (my heritage).