4 pages essay

Tracy Zhou EAD 1 Section 10 Mr.Akey 2 -2 -2019

Culture and the Individual

An individual is formed majorly by the ways of the people they find when they were

born, parents, siblings, religious institutions, academic institutions they attend, and even the

social activities they find upon being taken. I’m born in Shenzhen, China, ​I grew up speaking

both English and the Chinese languages, but​ I love my country. Everyone in China likes that.

Also, I love my family more than myself. In China, China is a communism and socialism

country; it means a single-party system. And it is different from America. However, I have

studied American since I was 16, and I lived with my host family. For me, I need to do

everything by myself. I need to do the laundry by myself, wash dishes, and clean my room. But

when I stay at home, my room, my mum always helps me do all the things, prepare all the things.

Life in China is so different from how people live in this part of the world, especially on the

aspect of socialization. In the Asian country, life is entirely communal, and everything is done

nearly by the whole society, contrary to the individualistic culture of Americans. My Chinese

upbringing has shaped who I am many years, even after leaving China. However, a few aspects

are gradually changing to mirror American society and their ways of doing things. For example,

I cannot accept tattoos in my life, and when I see someone has a tattoo, I think it is the bad guy.

But I have tattoo until I was 18, and I changed my mind about tattoos. One more item in China

that cannot be acceptable is homosexual. Before I came here, I think it is unacceptable either.