User:LaraHangLu

10 Aspects of Myself

 * Nationality: China
 * Gender: Female
 * Race: Mongoloid
 * Age Group: 20's
 * Sexual Orientation: Heterosexuality
 * Family Structure: Father, Mother and Me
 * Neighbourhood: Great Beijing Area
 * Ability: Taking care of patients, being nice to people, and getting medical knowledge
 * Education: Beijing University of Chinese Medicien
 * Language and Ethnic Group : Chinese, Han Chinese

I was born in Beijing, China, which is a large population country. As a female in China,

I am at lower position of the Patriarchal society. I am a Han Chinese, which is the mojority

race of China. Since I was born in 1986, I am in my 20's, which is now a powerful labor force.

My sexual orientation is heterosexuality. There are three member in my family: father, mother,

and myself. Since I am the only child in my family, I grew up in a happy childhood. Beijing

is the capital city of China, so it is a very morden and populated neighbourhood, which makes

me a morden city girl. I received my degree in Beijing University of Chinese Medicien. It gives

me the ability of taking care of patients, being nice to people, and getting medical knowledge.

My language is Chinese, this is a very large spoken language all over the world, like China,

Taiwan, Singapore,etc.

Aspect Analysis
My nationality and my races give my a strong back up force behind me. My age group makes me a

competitive force in the labor market. As a single child in my family, my parents put all their

heart on me, which makes me worry little when facing trouble. My education is very useful in real

life, at least it can keep me and my family and friends healthy.

My gender is a lack of power and prestige, at least in China. My first language is Chinese, a

widly spoken language, however, even in Canada, there are a lot of Chinese speakers, which makes

me speak very little English. This is very bad for me if I would like to improve my English. My nationality might be changed if I choose to stay in Canada. My education might be fluid since

I am studying in Centennial college.

Self Reflection
This process made me learned new skills such as using Animoto & Wiki. It made me think of my

personality and my ability. It made me feel I should make some changes based on these aspects.

My nationality, my age group, my education helped me in my relationships with others. As I

learned about myself and others, it helped me to gain and give respect to others. When I read

over my finished "Sum of the Pieces", I was proud of my nationality, my age group, my

neighbourhood, and education, those gave me a strong confidence in my life.

Ways Identified by Others
Others sometimes judge yellow toned poeple(especially Chinese) as no manner. But in the fact,

as myself, I always treat people politely, this is different from what others see me. As a girl,

I am always seem to be weak and shy, but in fact, I am healthy and open-minded. As talking about

ethnicity, some ethnic group think that they are better than other group, Chinese for example, is

always be looked down. As a matter of fact, I think everybody are equally the same, there is no

difference between ethnic groups.

Miss-judgement
I remember there was once that when I saw my new classmates last semester, one guy came in and

suprized me. He was tall and strong, and gave me a feeling that he is very easy to be angry.

But as time went on, I found him a very nice guy. He was polite and friendly, helped me alot

with my study. I think the miss-judgement was because I judge people by appearance only, not

by fully understanding.

Personal values and norms
I think people should respect each other's value and norms. While we are socializing and working

with others, it is not avoidable that we might have different value and norms. Of course, we

always want others to accept ourselves' value and norms, if we do so, we should know that others

will think the same. As a result, it is then very important that we respect other's value and

norms as it is ourselves'. One more thing we should pay attention to is that we should not force

others to accept our own value and norms. It is not polite and has very bad influence on socializing

relationships.

Personal values VS. community/cultural group/ Canadian societal values
My personal values are aligned to my community -- in this case, China-- since I was born in China

and grew up there. For example, every single one in China thinks almost the same way, as a result,

I could easily know what what the patient need when I was taking care of them as a nurse in China.

My personal values are also aligned to the cultural group I identify with, since the mojority

of my socializing are involved with chinese cultured background. For example, in Canada, I might be

able to get almost everything done by just speak Chinese, because there are so many Chineses here

and they are almost in every single field of life needs. However, my personal values are contradict

with Canadian societal values. Canadian societal values are based on Western culture, it is not so

easy to melt with Eastern culture. For example, as a single child of my family, my parents support

me everything even if I am already 25 years old, but in Canada, once you are 18, you got very little

financial support from your family. This makes me very dependent when living here.