Dear Mrs. Wong,
It’s my great pleasure to read your article The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl. In this article, you mentioned that you hated to learn Chinese and feel sad of being a Chinese. I’m surprised to read that at first and I try to walk into your inner world to understand your thoughts.
As a girl who grows up in America, you are familiar with English and it is understandable that you consider English is more lovely and vivid than Chinese, which is dull and unfathomable. The mode of Chinese education and the teachers in Chinese schools are not satisfactory. Besides, the subjects that you learned in Chinese are impractical. Your mother’s strict way of pushing you to school also make you mad. All these elements that cause you dislike Chinese. In the meantime, speaking English makes you feel proud of being able to keep up with the American society.
I hold the view that even though you are in America for such a long time, it is unwise for you to give up your Mother Tongue--Chinese. No matter how frequently you speak English, it is just a second language and couldn’t give you the sense of national ascription. To some extent, the motivation that drive you to speak English is to blend in with your surroundings. However, it is still belong to another culture.
Your distinct experiences and identity provide you a good opportunity of mastering both languages. Why not try to embrace these two cultures? You can benefit a lot from being proficient in cross-cultural communication.
In a word, I hope you can get rid of the frustrated emotion of being a Chinese and find a balanced state between these two identities.
卢丹丹 Rebecca

Dear Mrs. Wong,
I am honoured to be able to communicate with you through this letter. Standing on your point, I know how hard it is for a 'banana' who is accustomed to and connected closely with the American culture, to accept the Chinese culture, especially the complicated and elusive Chinese language.As a Chinese, not exaggeratingly speaking, Chinese is the most intereing, elegant, expressive language in my eyes. Try to be exposed to the Chinese poems, to enter the world of 'The Journey to the West', also, to participate the Chinese idiom salon game and you are bound to discover that Chinese is extensive and profound indeed, not as you described in the article-----'pedestrian'.
At the end of the letter, I want to recommend a book to you-----To Live(活着）from Chinese writer YuHua.Wish you a good day!
Yours sincerely
Ben

Dear Elizabeth,
I am very pleasant to have such an opportunity to write a letter to you. I have read you article about your experience of learning at a Chinese school and trying to integrate into American society.
It is a pity that you have such a bad impression about Chinese and Chinese culture. What I want to tell you is that you actually don’t have a deep understanding of Chinese culture. Your mother appreciates Chinese culture a lot. If Chinese culture is as awful as you described, why you mother insisted you and your brother to learn Chinese? You know, Parents always do a lot of things for their children's good.
And when you were in the Chinese school, had you felt teachers’ kindness hid behind their serious faces? Had you ever found the beauty of Chinese characters when you wrote down strokes using writing brush? You ignored those shimmer because you had a prejudice at the beginning of learning Chinese.
So if you stop seeing Chinese culture through colorblind glasses, you will find that Chinese culture is attractive and has its own beauty.
Kiki