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COLLABORATIVE DISCUSSION Why does Noda have mixed feelings about her family? Discuss this question with a partner , citing evidence from the essay that shows both positive and negative feelings .

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Hello. You did not enter the text to which this question refers, which makes it impossible for your question to be answered. However, when searching for your question on the internet, I was able to find another question exactly the same as yours, which showed that the text in question was “Growing Up Asian in America”.

"Growing Up Asian in America" ​​tells the story of Noda, an American girl who has Japanese ancestry and who has difficulties in associating the two cultures to which she is inserted. She has mixed feelings about her family because she doesn't understand why, even in America, her parents prefer to maintain Japanese traditions and act as if they prefer the Japanese culture and are more proud of it than American culture.

Noda did not feel Japanese, for her the American influence was very strong and that was what she identified with. This was negative because it prevented her from knowing all the cultural wealth that the Japanese side of the family could provide, but we can also see this in a positive way if we think that she was able to create a cultural identity, even though she was of Asian descent.

Noda's confusion about her family started to change when she understood the family's suffering during the war and how being Japanese hurt them a lot in the USA, but it also gave them a lot of strength to overcome all problems. This overcoming strength was what made her see her Japanese side with other eyes and was very proud to be Japanese, in addition to being American.