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Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" contains a display of the challenges faced by four China-born women and their Americanized daughters. The relationship between these women and their American daughters show the struggle of how loving intentions can be misinterpreted. ....

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.... situations where he felt torn between two cultures. Wong's parents came to America in 1974. For the first couple of years, they lived a life not exposing themselves to the American culture. Once Wong started school, his surrounding influenced him, as in his friends who spoke "perfect" English and his teachers who taught and exposed him to the American culture. "It was like I was bringing home the American culture to my parents everytime I learned something new in school," Wong recalls. "I remember bringing home the first permission slip to go on a field trip when I was in kindergarten. My parents couldn't get over the fact that field trips e ....