Jazmine Navarro
In Tsui’s, “A Chinese Banquet,” her relatives are measured by how much success
they achieve and that success is shown through materialistic forms. One of her relatives is a dentist who drives a Mercedes-Benz. The rest of her family is concerned with buying a house or what vacation they will go on next. There achievements only come through material things while Tsui sees things differently. She does not want to be a computer programmer because it is not her passion. All of these details show the way people perceive what it is to be successful (in monetary terms) and how some cultures put all the emphasize on that and nothing else.
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I agree with you in terms that her culture is influencing her success based on what type of material things she owns but I believe that her family only questions her success because her mother fears that if she asks about marriage, her daugther will mention her female lover. And I believe that her parents are in denial of her sexual preference. I think that Asian cultures in general emphasize educational success because it leads to a better living and maybe they're just questioning for her best interest.
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