Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Fictions

Most of books in English I read are non fiction. It's not that I don't like fictions. I enjoy Chinese Ku-fu fictions, Chinese romantic novels, Chinese history novels, etc. Well, I guess I like Chinese fiction. Fictions, like jokes and humors, demand culture, history, value, even religion understanding to be entertained. In addition, fictions bring something that people can relate to or fantasize with. As a Chinese born and raised in China, I can't relate many things in the US, even though I have been living in the US for almost eight years. Or it also might be everything in the US is (or encouraged to be) individualized that collective identities are understood or interpreted differently.