Cultures Influence In The Article 'An Indian Father's Plea'

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Cultures Influence Has culture ever influenced you? Despite cultures huge place in the world, I think culture does not influence the world. I believe that culture does not influence the world because, no one is going to change their thoughts on a person just because of their culture. For example if someone loved another person then the find out the other person is from an Indian culture would that person hate the other just because there Indian? In the article “An Indian Father’s Plea” the author explains how his son is being rejected from his school for being a “slow learner”. Robert lake states, “He is 5 years old, in kindergarten, and I can’t understand why you have already labeled him as a slow learner.”(Lake,75). As the article goes

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