Jennifer Price's Irony To Criticize American Culture

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Culture is a major component when defining a nation. Many who claim to a culture are proud of it, and take heavy offense to any who disclaim their culture. Now culture can contain art, literature, and religion, but it also can hold a nation’s diet, entertainment, and personalities. These are all important aspects to a culture, which all boils down to how people interpret each society. When one tries to describe a society by the amount of wealth a nation has or by the surplus population they are determining another’s culture. In this passage Jennifer Price writes a synopsis on the eye-catching plastic flamingo in a way that criticizes American culture; she uses critical tone, arrogant descriptions, and irony.
Beginning with some of the most noticeable content in this passage, Price uses critical and sarcastic tone when describing American culture. Even more than describing America sarcastically, she begins to reveal her belief that Americans are sarcastic and critical …show more content…

For starters, the fact that Price uses this object to compare with America evidently shows she has strong feelings against the American way of life. She states, “In ancient Egypt, it symbolized the Sun God Ra. In Mexico and the Caribbean, it remains a major motif in art, dance, and literature.” By providing this fact she gives background to why she compares the United States to the Flamingo, because with this one object she can predict our national desires and beliefs. The author goes on to say, “And in South Beach, especially, architects employed the playful Art Deco style, replete with bright pinks and flamingo motifs.” Price is able prove with this fact how one single object changed much American culture and history more than many have thought. With both of these examples she is able to mention and backup her points on how the flamingo pertains to American

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