I thought of my father when I read the essay White Tigers in Across Culture. Though Maxine and I are both girl, we were both treated differently by a parent in the Asian culture.
Our relationship between my father and between Maxine and her mother (from White Tigers, p20-25) are in complete contrast. Maxine was rejected by her mother because she was a girl. Maxine's mother had old traditional way of thinking and said, "There's no profit in raising girls. Better to raise geese than girls."(20) In fact, she favored boys in the family.
My mother passed away at her early age and left my fa
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