Fish Cheeks Apa Citation

Madisen Crocker
Mrs. Love Hilliard
Multicultural Lit & Film
30 January 2017
Creative Title In Fish Cheeks, I Want to Be Miss America, and An Indian Father’s Plea shows that people struggle to accept their culture when they are faced with people that have different beliefs. People that don't understand their culture and do not appreciate it. Feeling no other way to escape from the torment of others they try to convert to the beliefs/cultures around them.
In Fish Cheeks a girl named Amy had a crush on an american boy named Robert, she was afraid that if Robert found out about her chinese culture then he would not like her back. When she found out that he was invited over for dinner Amy was devastated “When I found out that my parents had invited

They wanted so badly to look like the girls on the show, they did not like the way they look “we complained about how short we were about how our hair frizzed, how our figures didn’t curve like those of the bathing beauties we’d seen on TV.”. they did everything they could to try and blind in they shaved their legs behind their mom's back and started to dress just like the american people they seen. After all of the stuff they did, they did not realize that soon that ethnic looks would be in “beyond the screen,which inspired us with limited vision of what was considered beautiful in america we would have been able to see the late sixties coming. Soon ethnic looks would be in”. Even though they still did not believe they belonged in their own country they learned that they should not have been ashamed of who they were and what they looked like. They taught that no matter how different you look you shouldn’t have to change to fit in with everyone else, you should be happy with what you look like and what you

He talks to the teacher about the fact that his son’s teacher is saying that his son is slower than the other students, he tells the teacher how smart his son really is, that his son was taught education in a different way than most children his age “His aunts and grandmothers taught him to count and know his numbers while they sorted out the complex materials used to make the abstract designs in the native baskets” also “he was taught to learn mathematics by counting the sticks we use in our traditional native hand game”. He showed the teacher that his son is just different not a slow learner. The essay taught that people learn in different ways that does not make them slower it just makes them different. That every culture has its own ways of doing stuff and teaching. His son learned from nature and the thing around