Marios Blog Analysis

I was reading through some blogs trying to find something that i could relate to the idea of a hyphenated life. In doing so i managed to come across a blog written by a Asian-Canadian who’s family migrated to Canada. In the blog she talked a lot about how life was i her family and the kinds of morals and virtues that were important to her family. While reading this i thought a lot about some of the stories in Vancouver Short Stories, such as "Broken Teeth" and "The Jade Peony" even though when i first read those stories they seemed a little stereotypical after reading some of the postings on this girls blog i realized that maybe they were more realistic then i originally perceived them to be. I also noticed that even in two seemingly completely different cultures; Italian and Japanese I was able to pick out a lot of strong similarities. For example she talked about a strong emphasis on both family values and religion, which is something that I am more then familiar with coming from an Italian background. It was interesting to see how someone from a different background also faces a lot of the same issues in her everyday life and a lot of the same problems when it comes to the idea of a "hyphenated life" and balancing a her life at home with social life outside of the house. So in a nutshell i found it interesting how two seemingly completely different cultures have a lot of the same values and learned that the stories from Vancouver Short Stories may not have been as stereotypical as i had originally thought them to be.