EVENT CANCELED: Mimi Yang, “A Cross-Cultural Personality”
** Please note: This event has been canceled. **
Mimi Yang will be hosting a talk at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22 in the Clausen Center, room 113.
This talk we focus on the theme of her recently published book, “The Tricultural Personality,” which explores multicultural personalities in our increasingly global world and how, fundamentally, we are all more similar than we are different.
The American Dream, Confucianism, and the bullfight. What is common in these seemingly distant symbols/icons? This talk revolves around the three cultural icons, which represent the three biggest language speaking worlds in the 21st century: Chinese, English, and Spanish.
Delving into the depth of human nature and the core of culture, we pierce through the surface differences and re-evaluate the stereotypical binary: individualistic western culture vs. the collective non-western traditions. In doing so, we invite participants to discern a mutually resonant and recognizable dimension among apparently irrelevant mindsets, and thus cross linguistic, cultural, and geographic distances.