【正文】 ected by daughters’ marriages in the film. Rose’s marriage is a typical example, although her husband’s mother does not agree, marriage can still realize. According to the theory of personality structure, Western personality structure is the inner self as the core, named “selfdiscipline personality”. Western marriage reflects a mode: “the love, a marriage, reproduction”, so two people have feelings, then have the marriage, which fundamentally affirmed the autonomy of marriage. Thus Westerners tend to choose a spouse independently, but cannot tolerate any other people involved. So her motherinlaw want to persuade Rose and her son separate in the film. the son is furious to her, with a very rude word criticism mother, this is called the mistake in china. Americans if you like, you do not care about the others’ opinions, but listen to your heart. Thus, the differences beween China and west of the marriage concept. Morphological Characteristics of Chinese and Western Views of Marriage Different personality structure decides different marriage. China’s interpersonal self of personality model decides marriage: “reproduction, marriage and sex”. While 黑龍江外國語學(xué)院 2020 屆畢業(yè)論文 8 the Chinese marriage is basisd on family of photograph, to maintain family. From the morphological characteristics of ways, it is these aspects to strengthen the stability and persistance of Chinese marriage, Chinese people sacrifice quality of personal sex in exchange for stability and persistance of marriage and family. In China, the nature of marriage is two people lose their independence and to form a new plete independent person, to form a new personality, named two people into a person. This kind of relationship depend on each other mutual confluence, add to its stability. Westerners’ inner self as the core of the personality structure is decided to the marriage patterns: “Love, marriage and reproduction”. This model leads to the personal autonomy of west marriage, and sex as a basic form of marriage, so that their marriage without stability. Due to personal autonomy. Western marriage and westerners sacrifice family stability and durability, In order to gain personal sex of different quality, no others involved. so sex as a foundation of western marriage is very unstable. Different Senses of Value The Differences Between Chinese Family in the Pecking Order and American Family of Equality “Respect your parents”, children honor their parents, children follow their will, is typical of Confucianism, “Filial piety” first performance in the respect for parents, concerned parents’ health, nearer layer of “filial piety” means obedience to parents and elders will. Four mothers in the film are grown in old China, grew up in a strong Confucian culture, which imposed the “filial piety” on their children’s education invisibly. But in the United States this open advocating human rights culture background, Parents do everything is not allowed, it impinge on human rights. America advocates the freedom, equality, everyone is an independent individual, live for themselves. No one can deprived others of freedom and independent choice of the right . 黑龍江外國語學(xué)院 2020 屆畢業(yè)論文 9 In “the Joy Luck Club” this film, Suyun Wu feel that her daughter had a talent for playing the piano, so that she hope her daughter bee a pianist in the future. Suyun Wu to help clean the house, do some chores, purpose to buy a piano, in order to let her daughter practice the piano at home every day. However, Suyun Wu’s daughter grew up in the United States, accept to the American education, impacted by the American culture, she advocates equality, democracy and freedom, can not tolerate that the mother arrange her future. In order to eliminate the mother thought, she does not take piano lessons deliberately, She knew that her mother will not give up, never let her go. Of course, she had got everything ready, in order to win back their own right of choose independently, she decided to against her mother: “here is America, not China, we make decision by ourselves, it’s no need to bring an outsider in.” Therefore, daughters edify by America culture, they are unable to tolerate the mother to make decisions for them, refused to mother’s any demonstration and guidance, they think that mother violated of freedom and their rights of independent choice. The Differences Between Chinese Traditional Family Concept and American Individualism. In the traditional Confucian thought influence, clan and family concept was promoted to a very important position, a personal thing to be amplified in family affairs, and personal achievements will be praised by the whole family. Another daughter in the film, Waverley won the national chess champion, Also she appeared on the cover of the magazine. Wei’s mother Gong Linda is proud of this, she was holding a magazine covered with his daughter’s photo, To every stranger with the casual eye asked “do you know? This is my daughter Waverley.” When she heard praise from others, Gong Linda also feel flattered highly. Her daughter dislikes her practice, even feel embarrassment, shame. She said to her, “ as your daughter, I feel a bit shame. If you want to show off, why don’t you go to learn chess?” Gong Linda heard her daughter words, could not believe her ears, she was furious. Finally, 黑龍江外國語學(xué)院 2020 屆畢業(yè)論文 10 Waverley because of the mother this disgusted behavior and give up playing chess. Since ancient times, Chinese parents regard their children’s success as a capital to show off, But also because Chinese parents repose their all hopes in the children, parents think that children’s success is their maximize returns. While American culture is paid more attention to personal struggle and the realization of personal value, they think their success i