happens when two sisters feel differently about their backgrounds and cultural identities? Well in the story “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee, this very thing happens. Bharati and her sister Mira both move to America from Calcutta, to pursue their dreams. While there, they both marry and begin to embrace America differently. Bharati embraces the American culture and is happy to consider herself apart of it; however, Mira does not do the same. Mira moved to America to pursue her
the same way? Well, this would never happen because there are many factors that go into a person’s personality, not just cultural views. Examples of this are shown in many writings, memoirs, and letters throughout our learning. Evidence is shown in the essay, “An Indian Father’s Plea” by Robert Lake (Medicine Grizzlybear), the informational text, “What is Cultural Identity?” by Elise Trumbell and Maria Pacheco, and the personal essay, “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee. Through
order to know where we truly belong.” -Unknown. The different adventures one takes gives another person a different outlook on life and the future. They begin to look at the world and people differently from the experiences they have been through. Culture greatly informs the way one views the world and others. In the novel “Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, the little girl is under the control of her mother. Her mother believed that you can be whatever you want to be in America, but Jing-mei did not want to
currently at? As we start to express culture for the duration of our lives, it influences who we are, how we understand things, the way we behave, and how we start to classify others and the environment around us. The literary works "Two Kinds," "Two Ways to Belong in America," and "Legal Alien" all provide examples of the influences culture has on people. In the story "Two Kinds," by Amy Tan is about a young Chinese girl named Jing-mei is trying out varieties of prodigious talents in which her mother
Culture can greatly influence the way a person views the world because their culture is the backdrop of that person and what makes them unique, culture can make people view things differently from the world. The first reason on why I find culture a great influence is because in the letter “An Indian Father’s Plea” By Robert Lake, there was one part where Medicine Grizzlybear said, “He is not culturally ‘disadvantaged’, but he is culturally ‘different’.” (77). This explains how Wind-Wolf’s culture
their broader culture. This perception is demonstrated in the short stories, “Two Ways to Belong in America”, “An Indian Father’s Plea”, and “Everyday Use”. “Two Ways to Belong in America”, by Bharati Mukherjee, demonstrates that one’s personal surroundings is very influential and reflects on their culture. Living in America, Bharati, is affected by the American culture, more than her original, Indian culture. “America spoke to me…I embraced the demotion from expatriate aristocrat to immigrant nobody
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
Does a person’s culture influence the way he or she views the world? Culture sometimes influences the way a person views the world because you can choose if you want to live your culture or to adapt to a new one. Most of the things we do today have nothing to do with our culture so it is easier to adapt to a new way of living. Also some people might find it hard to live their culture and try to fit in with others around them so they begin to lose sight of their culture. One of the articles that we
person’s culture influences how people view the world and others sometimes. One’s culture helps one judge what is right or wrong. But actual life experiences can also influence why people view certain aspects of life the way they do. Sometimes culture can influence the way one views others and the world. In this interview/essay written by Kristen Lee, “Multiculturalism Explained In One Word: Hapa” the interviewee says, that despite Hapa being a very negative
gone through our lives unconsciously acting according to the social standards and behaviors of our culture. In the world today, culture fully informs the way of thinking and acting of an individual because of the deeply and subconsciously engrained responses put there by the culture in which he or she was born. Cultural identity changes the way people behave. Our cultural identity shapes our “values, beliefs, ideas about appropriate behavior…” (Trumbull, Pacheco 8). If we have lived our lives in