Analysis of the causes of the conflict between mother and daughter from the Cultural Perspective In "the Joy Luck Club"

电影《喜福会》向我们讲述了中国母亲与美国女儿人之间沟通障碍以及她们在东方信仰与西方价值观及传统文化与现代文明之间的争执。母亲与女儿的交流障碍不仅仅反映出两代人之间的隔阂，更反映出一种文化差异。母亲代表的逐渐消失的传统文化，女儿代表的则是日益壮大的新型文化；母亲们坚守着特殊的国家文化，她们想要传授一些中国文化给女儿们，但却以女儿们没有满足她们的期望而失落不已。然而，女儿们在妈妈们的期望与美国的现实中打转，最终接受了主流文化，并且嘲笑和丢弃了以她们妈妈为代表的非主流文化，在这一系列冲突的过程中，她们不断地寻求自我和社会地位，并且努力去继承她们的文化价值。母亲们努力去调解她们“中国式的过去”和“美国当代”，而女儿们也试着寻找着自主与忠于文化遗产之间的平衡点。

The movie "the Joy Luck Club" tells us communication obstacles between Chinese mother and American daughter and their belief in eastern and Western values and the dispute of traditional culture and modern civilization. Communication barriers between the mother and the daughter reflects not only the gap between two generations, but also reflects a cultural difference. The mother on behalf of the gradual disappearance of the traditional culture, the daughter is the representative of the new

culture growing; mothers hold special national culture, they want to teach

some Chinese culture to the girls, but because the girls do not meet their expectations and disappointed. However, the daughters between the mothers about expectations and American reality, finally accepted the mainstream culture, and ridiculed and

rejected the non mainstream culture to their mother as the representative. In this series of conflicts, they continue to seek self and social status, and work hard

to inherit their cultural value. Mothers try to mediate their "the past of China type

" and "America contemporary", while the daughters try looking for autonomy and loyal to the balance between cultural heritage.

2．1个人主义与集体主义对比

2.1 the contrast of individualism and collectivism

个人、集体主义是衡量文化变化的重要标尺，为人与人交流之间的文化异同提供了一个强有力的解说性框架。中国传统的意识形态和美国当代文化共存影响是同样强烈的，不论什么时候，母亲向女儿提出期望或者管教她们的时候，总是不情愿的师徒唱反调或反抗。“美国制造”的女儿，非常重视个人自由，换句话说，个人主义。这意味着她们有能力在不受其他干涉，包括母亲，来掌握自己的命运。每个人首选应该被看作一个个体，其次才是集体中的一员。对于她们来说，追求个人自由的权益是合法的，不能被任何人剥夺。在中国文化里，一个人不是属于自己而是属于家庭和社会，孝道最为重视。她们的父母是权威的，孩子必须在各