Handsomest Drowned Man In The World Analysis

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America is one of the most diverse nation in the world. This country is just a place filled with people collaborating from all around the world. Because of this we have many diverse different things and reimaginings. Such as food and good example is buffets. I have been to buffets with many different foods that originated in other countries. Claude Mckay felt America was a buffet that ends with food poisoning. I take it as there is a mixture among cultures but sometimes it does not work. In this very diverse country there are many stereotypes about different social groups. And the mixture of the is melting pot many people's culture is dumb down or simplified. For example, thinking a chinese restaraunt is the same as it would be in China. The good thing about America …show more content…

The melting pot we call america introduces innovation and starts up new motivations and different practices. A prime example is architecture of white house which is heavily inspired by roman architecture. However, the white is not exact roman architecture, it is still hints of architectural customs of the early America. In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, the villagers never seen such a big human so they compare him to things they know: “The men who carried him to the nearest house noticed that he weighed more than any dead man they had ever known, almost as much as a horse, and they said to each other that maybe he'd been floating too long and the water had got into his bones.” The men of the village used their knowledge of to make an assumption that the body was heavy because of water seeping into his bones. As human we assume things and try to make our own truths through what we know. That is why we have stereotypes or other assumptions on a culture based on entertainment food or race. In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, the female assumptions about the dead man because “They noticed too that he bore his death with pride, for he did not have

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