The Importance Of Culture And Personal Experiences In An Indian Father's Plea

Culture sometimes informs the way one views the others and the world in our everyday lives. Some say your culture shapes you as who you are but others say that it’s the experiences you’ve had. Whenever I hear the question “To what extent does one’s Culture inform the way one views others and the world?” I think of two different things. I think of the differences between people, an example being people who have homes and the homeless. They have different point of views because they are in drastically different situations. So I do agree with it may have to deal with experiences, but then I also think about racism and racial judgement, etc. Thats where the Culture comes into play and then with that information I stand in the middle. Its both,

In An Indian Father’s Plea both culture and personal experiences come together to make a wonderful reading. Textual evidence to support this is in paragraph 11 the father explains “He is not culturally disadvantaged, he is culturally different.” making the story more focused on the culture. But the story also shows Wind-Wolf’s personal experiences growing up as an indian kid and having to go to a school that is Culturally different from the way he grew up as a young child. The overall theme for the letter/writing in my opinion is Just because someone is culturally different, doesn’t mean you should label them as something that they’re not. The reason for why I think that is the theme is because in the letter the Father is defending his son because they labeled Wind-Wolf a slow learner, when actually he has just grown up a totally different way than most kids of a different

The two pieces of textual evidence I have to support this claim are both from paragraph #67 in the reading. The first one is whenever Jing-mei and her mother get into an argument about not wanting to play piano anymore. Jing-mei's mother shouts “Only two kinds of daughters!” and then she goes on to say “Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!” These two pieces of evidence from the text are crucial to the story as a whole. They are important because Jing-mei’s mother wants Jing-mei to follow the chinese culture, and play instruments, and to be a talented young girl like the ones on T.V. While Jing-mei’s mom wants her to follow the chinese culture, Jing-mei is growing up in america, and wants to follow her own mind, and she wants to do her own thing. This causes big conflict between the two during the story. So her mom does kinda force culture onto Jing-mei and that’s where culture is noticed, but Jing-mei also has personal experiences at school that make her want to express her own thoughts and be herself and do what she wants to do, making her not listen to her mom that