Topic > Chinese Cinderella - 532

Cultural experience can influence a person's perspective, vision, and change in the world. In the book Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, it is shown and proven that culture influences a person's society, decisions and human perspective. Adeline's life is shaped around the Chinese culture she lives by, imposed by her stepmother while she is limited in freedom and influenced by outside cultures, such as her classmates. Culture can influence the decisions you make or, in Adeline's case, made for you. Adeline is not able to have the freedom that normal people have because of the culture she lives in. The freedom her classmates have is different from Adeline's, making her an oddity. Therefore, her classmates were silenced by the realization of Adeline's family culture, after witnessing the truth. Importantly, she is not allowed to attend college because her culture forbids it. The reason is that she is a girl and only her brothers went to college, while her sister got married. Adeline was afraid that she too would get married and no...