My personal windowpane is one of vagueness and preconceptions. These vague preconceptions are due to the small encounters I have experienced with China as a youth in America. The many faint scratches are small and numerous, often times hard to see with the naked eye. Most of these scratches are from the folklore that I have heard as a child about the fascinating and strange world across the ocean. These include things and people such as Marco Polo, Confuscious, The Great Wall, and other ancient tales that come from thousands of miles away to bring us a slightly blurred vision of a far off land.

Deeper scratches, or marks, that have influenced my visions of China are that of a communist or Red China. As a young child, in an America that was just getting out of the Cold War with Russia, I saw images of China on the news and

Is it even possible to suspend these values? It may not be completely possible for everything in my life has been influenced by my own personal history. But what I must do is try and look openly at this new culture and understand them. If I look at China with a critiqual eye then I will find myself having much difficulty understanding them. China is a completely different world than mine and I must try to understand why they do the things they do without judgment.

My generational views, although influenced by previous generations, are still unique to my own experiences with China. These influences include the many discussions and talks of Chinese, American politics I heard growing up as a child. My first and deepest-rooted preconceptions of China are that of a communist and evil China that threatens the position of power that is held by the US in the world. But as a child growing up in America during a time period in which China has changed immensely I see a positive future with China that some older generations might never have dreamed of. I see a China that is becoming more open and free with its trade and world relations. Whereas older generations only saw an isolated country that didn’t want anything to do with our American way of life. All of these generational stereotypes may not be correct but are what I have interpreted throughout my growth and childhood.

in the paper that were of a country that was militaristic and evilly communist. These young images also show a picture of an old man on signs and pictures throughout the country with people parading and chanting about him around the streets. Even in the classroom we learned that Russia was now our friend yet China was

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