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Fish Cheeks – Being American
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Fish Cheeks – Being American
Based on the article, Amy Tan identifies being American as exhibiting proper manners. She asks, “What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners? Through her question, we get to understand that Americans do not make noise while having meals, unlike the Chinese who she says that like making a lot of noise. Besides, she brings into the reader’s attention that the American dish consists of a roasted turkey and sweet potatoes. Amy brings this into attention when she states, “What a terrible disappointment would he feel upon seeing not a roasted turkey and sweet potatoes, but Chinese? And this is a major indication of how the Chinese food contrasts with American. Amy is not happy about Chinese food, and she feels disappointed.
Based on the two identification of being American means being rigid on a certain type of food. Her suggestion makes it easy to guess that an American dish should consist of roasted turkey and sweet potatoes, especially on the festive season such as on Christmas. Based on my opinion, I don’t think that being American can be dictated by eating roasted turkey and sweet potatoes, and this is because there are other diets that Americans do take in such big events. Not every American meal has the above mention foods and therefore, I can say that Amy was generalizing what she had seen in maybe a single event.
Regarding the Chinese making a lot of noise, I also don’t agree, especially in contemporary society as people do chat during dinner and other meals. However, I guess the main point that Amy wants to drive home is that the Americans are civilized and don’t make much noise. But we can’t generalize again to the Chinese as making noise may not be their will but because their dialect makes them so. The American dialect is slow and comforting both in making a speech and even chatting with others. It doesn’t have a high pitch, and this makes it less noisy, and this is what makes the Chinese perceive it as good manners. On the Chinese dialect, most of the words are high-pitched, and this makes it seem as if a person is shouting and when a group of Chinese speak at a go, it may translate to intensive noise, and this is what Amy feels like is out of the norm of the American culture. She is afraid of the noises despite being normal chats.
Being American means patience, while the Chinese licked the ends of their chopsticks and reached across the table and dipping them into dozen plates of food, the Americans waited patiently for the platters to be passed to them. Another aspect of the Chinese that is not exhibited by the Americans is belching. Amy states that her father leaned back and belched loudly as a way of showing satisfaction. According to the Chinese, it is a polite way of saying that one is satisfied. Finally, Amy’s mother grants her a miniskirt which, according to her, was a symbol of being America. She tells Amy, You want to be the same as American girls on the outside.” Based on the two symbols, I can agree with her that being American means being polite and patient and this is what manners comes in, unlike his father who belched loudly, Americans would simply give a comment of the food as a way of saying thank you and as a way of showing satisfaction. In regards to dressing, I do agree with Amy’s mother that Americans wear miniskirts, and this is evidenced in today’s generation, where wearing short dresses is the latest fashion.
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Tan, Amy. “Fish Cheeks.” The Brief Bedford Reader (2000): 92-95. Retrieved from: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/fish-cheeks
Effects of deflations to the economy
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Introduction
Deflation has been defined by many economists and financial experts as the decrease in the price of a certain good, asset or service compared to previous market prices. This economic phenomenon has various effects on the economy of the subject country, and this paper shall address some of them with a view to justifying the Federal Reserve’s response to the same.
Effects of deflations to the economy
Deflationary forces lower the prices of commodities affecting the improvement of production efficiency (Economywatch.com, 2015). Since the production efficiency of a country is directly dependent on the promise of higher profit margins, and results to higher quality goods, it releases pressure on the producers to push the costs of increasing the quality of their products to the consumer thus resulting in lower prices. Therefore, deflation leads to lower consumer prices and an increased purchasing power.
The effects of deflation on the economy of a country are negatively biased in terms of its effect on liquid asset owners and borrowers. By acting as a form of tax on these individual parties, deflation also benefits liquid cash holders and owners of assets and this condition introduces a certain level of risk to the economy known in economic circles as the liquidity trap (Bernanke, 2000). Herein, encouraged by the negativity of risk-adjusted asset returns, the purchasers and investors are enticed to pool money instead of investing it in guaranteed securities.
Investment activities and expenditure are discouraged by deflationary forces a decline in the economy’s aggregate demand and an introduction of the deflationary spiral. This is characterized by a fall in the prices of goods produced as the situation deteriorates to a vicious circle as witnessed during the American Civil War. Herein, the country’s fiscal authority acts quickly, depending on the rate of deflation, to increase demand by lending money at lower interest rates than those offered by private commercial bodies.
Deflation also affects the economy by increasing the velocity of money, at least according to the Monetarist views (Fujiwara,2007). Herein, the number of monetary transactions is reduced rather permanently and results in an acute shortage in the supply of money with heavy effects on the industries dealing in exportation and importation activities.
Should the Federal Reserve Bank be concerned?
The Federal Reserve Bank has every right toke be concerned with the effects that deflation has on the United States economy. But unlike the Great Depression of the 1930’s, contemporary depression would be the result of far more complex factors that production aspects. In fact,according to recent research, there is a need for a small degree of controlled deflation to maintain the interest rates in the United States in the optimal regions nearer to zero, after all. According to Milton Freidman, there is a need for “optimal monetary policy to maintain the nominal rate of interest at zero”(Clement, 2015). Although this has been mentioned above as a negative effect of deflationary forces, the current state of the American economy needs to stay as near to the liquidity trap as possible, without reaching it. This has been demonstrated to hold the key to reducing the current economic inefficiencies due to a variety of reasons.
Therefore, the Federal Reserve needs to embrace some small, but controlled degree of deflationary force in the American economy to deal with the inherent inefficiencies in the contemporary economic conditions.However, the devastating effects of the same economic conditions should not be forgotten as the harsh conditions of the 1930’s still remain etched in the minds of Americans. Therefore, there is a need to monitor carefully this deflationary allowance.
References
Economywatch.com,. (2015). Effects of Deflation | Economy Watch. Retrieved 16 January 2015, from http://www.economywatch.com/inflation/deflation/effects.htmlBernanke, B. (2000). Essays on the great depression. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Fujiwara, I. (2007). Japanese monetary policy during the collapse of the bubble economy. Tokyo: Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan.
Clement, D. (2015). Retrieved 16 January 2015, from http:///www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/deflation-should-the-fed-be-concerned.c