To Be an American Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet depicts a Taiwanese man crossing cultural boundaries. He is caught between his parent’s traditional belief system and his own experience as an Asian-American man. The movie shows the struggle Wai-Tung undergoes to deal with his life as an assimilated man and the life that his parents in Taiwan have planned for him. This is a situation that many people who come to America have …showed first 75 words of 1387 total…

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