Culture: By Any Other Name By Santha Rama Rau

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Michelle Tweten Hernandez Hernandez 1 October 6,2015 Mrs. Smith English 10H Synthesis Culture Paper What's culture to you? Do you know your own culture? Well some believe that culture is who you are and i am one of those people. Without your culture do you know who you are? How can you really identify yourself without your culture? Can you identify other people’s culture? If so you probably can only name some things that make their culture up but probably not everything. Some people's culture affects them more than others. For me, for example, culture is everything, without it I wouldn’t be the person I am today. A person's culture impacts how they view the world…show more content…
In "By Any Other Names" Santha Rama Rau said " Premila and I were the only one who had Indian food," (Rau, 37). She wasn't afraid to show that she was Indian in a mainly British school and she was happy to have Indian food. If she would have been embarrassed about her food then she would have been embarrassed about her culture as well. By embracing her culture it showed how much culture impacted her life. Another thing she said was " 'she said it was because Indians cheat,' Premila added. ' So I don't think we should go back to that school'," (Rau, 39). Without her culture Premila wouldn't have know that the school they were going to was racist and she knew she shouldn't go there anymore. In their Indian culture they were home schooled and…show more content…
By saying she married America she’s saying that she saw and accepted the culture that comes with America. I have personal experience with coming to America and viewing and accepting the culture that come with it. “She is here to maintain and identity, not to transform it,” (Mukherjee, 71). This means that she is there to keep her culture not to transform it, she may some parts but not completely transform it. By saying she is there to maintain and not transform she is saying that she won’t let go of her culture easily and she won’t allow for others to change it. “She clings passionately to her Indian citizenship and hopes to go home to India when she retires,” (Mukherjee, 71). This means she is passionate about her Indian heritage and her Indian culture. When you go to a different place you get home sick which means you miss everything you had been surrounded by in your home, which means you miss the culture. Your culture is what you surround yourself with. Your culture impacts everything and everyone you surround
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