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Undeniable Culture In Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds,” Amy’s relationship with her mother exemplifies the complexity of traditional values which shadowed first and second generation Chinese immigrants living in the US. Both Amy and her mother have underlining identity conflicts within themselves as well as with each other. These discrepancies in their relationship are the outcome of the cultural clash they inevitably experienced as Asians in America. Even though Amy’s mother views herself as American and propounds American tradition, she still views the world around her through a rather Asian and immigrant perspective. The mother lost everything dearest to her in China and in 1949 moving to America with no regret since she believed “there were so many ways for things to get better.” Amy was the variable of her mother’s experiment which enforced typical Ame