The reading "Things about America and Americans," is very similar to the way Asian workers are perceived in America as hard working trying to save as much money as possible in order to accomplish the American Dream. According to the passage, "Americans cherish time because of their worship of money. They have a proverb that time is gold. The impatience of their temperament, the hurry and pressure of their affairs is visible in the way they walk,” for many people in Asia due to these American way of living and culture seem as rude and impatient.
I believe that it would be very interesting to have students compare and contrast this article to a way of living in East Asia in the following categories such as land without ghosts, the importance of money, superstitions, inside American homes, birth control, education of children, and train conversation. A good starting point would be about education since students would have first hand experience to American education compared to East Asia education and expectations from students. I believe that we have more similarities than differences on pose topics. Due to the globalization students will be able to understand the importance of the pose topics in order to use higher thinking skills and start discussions about similarities rather than differences about two different cultures.
I agree that it will be a great way to implement this reading in the classroom by having the students compare and contrast the content of this article to the way of living in East Asia. However, I will also show the students clips of documentaries about contemporary people's lives in those countries. Furthermore, it will be a good experience for them to infer what could be the motives of East asian teenagers when they look up towards the future. It will be interesting to see how teenagers every where in the world are pretty similar, when it comes to their dreams and goals. I would like to focus more on education in China and on the big test (Gao Kao) the students have to take in order to enter the university and the tests (SAT) we take here in America.