Part 1 has already been answered. (IN THE ATTACHMENT)
Please do not deviate from the general direction of part 1.
General Information: Male, Chinese. Living in China during age 9-18.
Please answer following:
Autoethnography Part Two: ages 9-18
Here are some things to think about. You don’t have to write about all of them.
Use them to get focused. Don’t write about anything you feel uncomfortable sharing. Feel free to write about topics I haven’t mentioned that are significant to you.
As with Part 1, continue to think about how your parents’ struggles, desires and hopes, their values, opinions, politics, religion, and above all how their expectations of you, affected and continue to affect you.
As with Part 1, think about the emotional mood(s) of your home. Think about your house; the music you heard; the role sports or religion or art or extended family played in your childhood. Think about family gatherings, holiday celebrations, rites of passage.
Think about language and languages, bilingualism, language mixing and switching.
Think about family stories and occasions of storytelling.
You may have experienced bullying, poverty, racism, homophobia, serious illness, death, even war. Write about these.
What sense did you have of who you were, your identity, or multiple identities? To what extent did you feel part of ‘mainstream’ culture, your parents’ culture, ‘alternative’ culture or cultures?
Feel free to talk about drugs or alcohol if they played a role in your life during these years, about friendship, relationships, sexuality, work, nature, music, art.
Feel free to talk about your physical and emotional experience of puberty; menstruation.
Write about particular challenges you may have had to deal with, and about successes,
and things you’re proud of.