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The yin and yang of American culture :a paradox
- 作者: Kim, Eun Y.
- 出版: Yarmouth, Me. : Intercultural Press ©2001.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xx, 232 pages).
- 標題: National characteristics, American. , Social values United States. , Public opinion , Since 1945 , Electronic books. , Public opinion Asia. , HISTORY. , Public opinion, Asian. , United States , United States Civilization -- 1945- , Civilization , United States Foreign public opinion, Asian. , Asia. , Public opinion. , United States. , Social values , Foreign public opinion, Asian. , Civilization. , Social values.
- ISBN: 0585434433 , 9780585434438
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (page 232).
- 電子資源: https://dbs.tnua.edu.tw/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=74195
- 系統號: 005299835
- 資料類型: 電子書
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You can't not have a reaction to this book! Based on over thirty years of conversations and interactions with Americans and Asians, Korean American Eun Kim presents American virtues and vices from an Asian perspective, using the ancient Asian concepts of yin and yang, which coexist in everything and complete each other to maintain cosmic harmony. In this way, Kim draws us to look at the yang (light) mirror of American vices and the yin (dark) mirror or American virtues. Examples of the virtues she discusses are generosity, competitive spirit, openness, and volunteerism. Some of the vices she explores are insistence on rights, refusal to grow up, arrogance, and tolerance of violence. In her fifty entries, the author describes and illustrates an American value and provides an Asian perspective on it as well as what she believes to be the dangers and opportunities inherent to each value. She uses personal experience, anecdotes and quotes from Asians and Americans both famous and unknown, historical background, general wisdom, and proverbs to enrich her writing. Eun Kim straddles two cultures, her Asian homeland and her adopted country, the United States. This is a highly personal and readable book, with insights that may make the American reader squirm uncomfortably in one paragraph and glow with pride in the next.
來源: Google Book
來源: Google Book
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