No one likes to be in the spotlight, or how about labeled “different”? Based off of how you dress, things you like, views on economics, or maybe a specific dress, but how about culturally? What about those who come to America to have a better life, thinking things are going to work out perfectly, but not see the reality of how Americans may treat you? I mean culture is basically cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. So why do we judge one another because of it? Being culturally …show more content…
We should accept everyone no matter the race, religion, culture or anything down to how they dress. Since we do, though, I want to give a few examples on how that is the case in the word more than how it is not. For example, the “The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack” story is about a boy who ran away from school but didn't make it home and died alone. Within that text, one part of a paragraph stated, “Even before Charlie ran away he was already running hard just to keep pace with the bewildering white world he had suddenly been thrust into.” This shows that culture has a huge impact on how people judge each other because for the boy to run away from school and have it at the time be a very racial environment was hard for him. People still judge now, but nothing where kids run away because of enforcement into a school like that. Another example would be, “And perhaps because they are Indians, no one seems to care very much. So this, then, is the story of how a little boy met a terrible and lonely death, of the handful of people who became involved, and of a town that hardly noticed.” This shows that culture has a huge impact on how people judge each other because white people disliked the Natives just because of their traditions and what they do. They wanted all activities to be American and American only. Even now do people not like something because of it being …show more content…
The story is about two sister who currently lives in America. It has to deal with moving to the United States in the 1960’s. Both sisters moved to the United States in hope to pursue their dreams and to achieve they goals with college and further education. Both having similarities in appearance and religious values. Both Bharati and her sister Mira had planned to move back to their homeland India after their education. This story relates to our point of culture having a major impact on how people judge each other because it has a huge impact on how people view the world differently because, in this example, I feel manipulated and discarded. This is such an unfair way to treat a person who was invited to stay and work here because of her talent” it is basically stating on how even immigrants (like the sisters themselves) who have come into the U.S., are sometimes given fewer benefits and rights than everyone else and that they feel discluded from being able to express themselves if they wanted to, or to have good thoughts that America is as good as people has said it was, with all this freedom. The last example is, I feel some kind of irrational attachment to India that I don’t to America. Until all this hysteria against immigrants, I was totally happy.” This demonstrates that it isn’t the country itself that makes people unsafe or unsure, it’s the people running it who try to put limitations
One million people, each year, immigrate to the United States of America dreaming of a better life. Many come by their own free will but many are forced by unfortunate situations in their home country. Those people generally have to leave behind whatever possessions they have and deal with an ever saddening situation. In the novel Interpreters of Maladies by Lahiri, Lahiri discusses in multiple short stories the specifics of the cultural struggles of adapting to a new land with different people and different traditions. In the stories A Real Durwan, Mrs. Sen’s and When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine she talks about how a person from India has come to America against their will. The immigrant’s story
People place judgment on one another every day based on differences. Sometimes it is done subconsciously; sometimes it is done on purpose. In the book The House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III, two different cultures were represented; Kathy represented the culture of the western civilization, whereas Behrani represented the culture of Persians. People judge one another based on unimportant things, and get judged based on those same things as well. Two cultures were used to amplify how different their cultures were from one another. Throughout the book cultures vocalized what they did not like about the other cultures by placing judgment on people based on ethnicity, appearance, and status; despite how different the cultures were, they had something in common, negative judgment. In a world where there is so much diversity, the only way for all cultures to get along is to place judgments aside and accept the differences.
...sures such as missing limbs, rape, and deportation as they travel on top of trains to the United States. They persevere through these struggles simply to provide for their family. I believe that the risks the migrants are willing to take to keep their family happy and healthy are courageous and beyond reproach. The mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters who travel to the United States leave behind their country, language, and people in hopes that they will be able to build a life for their family and leave the crime, danger, and joblessness of their home country forever. In my opinion, the main idea of the story is one that should be shared with people from every nationality and ethnic background. This story’s main idea and theme exhibit the importance of family and just how hard people are willing to work in order to maintain happiness and peace within their home.
The busy season for the shop she was working on came and the owner of the shop kept demanding for what we call overtime. She got fired after she said, “I only want to go home. I only want the evening to myself!.” Yezierska was regretful and bitter about what happened because she ended up in cold and hunger. After a while she became a trained worker and acquired a better shelter. An English class for foreigners began in the factory she was working for. She went to the teacher for advice in how to find what she wanted to do. The teacher advised her to join the Women’s Association, where a group of American women helps people find themselves. One of the women in the social club hit her with the reality that “America is no Utopia.” Yezierska felt so hopeless. She wondered what made Americans so far apart from her, so she began to read the American history. She learned the difference between her and the Pilgrims. When she found herself on the lonely, untrodden path, she lost heart and finally said that there’s no America. She was disappointed and depressed in the
America was not everything the mothers had expected for their daughters. The mothers always wanted to give their daughters the feather to tell of their hardships, but they never could. They wanted to wait until the day that they could speak perfect American English. However, they never learned to speak their language, which prevented them from communicating with their daughters. All the mothers in The Joy Luck Club had so much hope for their daughters in America, but instead their lives ended up mirroring their mother’s life in China. All the relationships had many hardships because of miscommunication from their different cultures. As they grew older the children realized that their ...
In “My Two Lives”, Jhumpa Lahiri tells of her complicated upbringing in Rhode Island with her Calcutta born-and-raised parents, in which she continually sought a balance between both her Indian and American sides. She explains how she differs from her parents due to immigration, the existent connections to India, and her development as a writer of Indian-American stories. “The Freedom of the Inbetween” written by Sally Dalton-Brown explores the state of limbo, or “being between cultures”, which can make second-generation immigrants feel liberated, or vice versa, trapped within the two (333). This work also discusses how Lahiri writes about her life experiences through her own characters in her books. Charles Hirschman’s “Immigration and the American Century” states that immigrants are shaped by the combination of an adaptation to American...
Mukherjee begins her essay with an exposition of her and her sister’s story. She uses repetition in order to emphasize the main differences between the two. For example, she states, “I am an American citizen and she is not. I am moved that thousands of residents are finally taking the oath of citizenship. She is not.” This line is used to set up her subject. She is stating that she is an immigrant whose dream was to envelop the American culture, while her sister does not believe that she should be assimilated into it. The use of repetition also appeals to her audience, Americans, by capturing their attention. Many Americans are nationalistic, if not jingoistic, and believe that America is the greatest country in the world. The notion that others do not feel this way may intrigue them, or potentially offend them, causing them to read on in attempt to find flaws within her argument.
These preconceived notions I was brought up with allows me to have a closed mind at times, but I can more than likely see the truth. The scenery of the logic I am presenting may seem bias or prejudice toward another cultural group over another, but have you seen the news, music, and the communities lately. It seems like every race is scared to venture out into other races, and if he or she does they are criticized every way possible. Have you realized for you to be in a certain group with different cultural backgrounds, you have to act really similar to that particular culture, even if you get along with them better, and then be called fake by your own culture if you do not have a
Why one judges another may be due to the fact that people have been doing so for centuries and it has simply progressed over the years. In her Difference Matters book, Brenda Allen states that a “reason we might suppose that certain persons occupy particular roles… stems from a complex history in the United States of systemic, socially reproduced inequities” (2-3). The problems America faced when becoming a unified country were not easy, as many know. Though social injustices such as racial and religious discrimination, gender inequality, are not as predominant today as they used to be, the history of it remains. People are reminded of the past inequalities and continue to judge others intentionally or subconsciously. Furthermore, the connection between “identity shifts and historical cultural configurations, [suggests] that certain character types are encouraged by cultures through differential socialization practices” (Howard 7). The way people act is influenced by when, where, and who with they were raised. Someone born in the 1930s will have different surroundings, which will effect how that person acts and thinks than compared to someone born in the 2000s. Identity itself and how one perceives another individual’s identity goes hand in hand with the history of how it came to
Comparing and viewing different cultures is like looking at a white egg and a brown egg. The outside may be different, but on the inside, everyone is the same. Culture is highly effective in the way people view others, and the world. This is because of all the stereotypes that are connected to different cultures. A few examples of this are in the articles HAPA, An Indian Father’s Plea, and Legal Alien. These articles share the perspectives of 3 individuals who face cultural stereotyping. It is never fun being treated differently for your culture, and even if some stereotypes are funny and easy to make fun of, they need to end now.
As humans, because we definitely are all “humans,” we share the ability to experience and create culture and with it the capacity to experience feelings of superiority towards other cultures. Our major dilemma is the one in which we forget that, though we may be different in culture, we are the same in race. We are all human and we are all one race—not many races. The idea that there is a hierarchy of certain people, that some are lesser than others, is based purely on outward appearances, on social misconceptions and not biological evidence. We unfortunately forget that our different beliefs and desires and ideas are not passed down like inherited genes but are learned concepts we each are faced with from the moment of birth.
Society isn’t always accepting to those of color, religion, race, and individuality. These people are commonly described as being “different”, “weird”, “nobody’s”, due to how they express themselves through the way they dress, the way they do their hair, they way they do their makeup, and what kind of music they listen to. No
The main conflict in this story is a personal conflict of Jayanti trying to convince herself that America is still a great place, ignoring her uncle saying "Things here aren't as perfect as people at home like to think." She tries to stay open minded to how great America is going to be, until her conflict with the boys in the streets. The boys throw nasty slush at Jayanti and her aunt, but Jayanti doesn't seem to want to accept that fact boys that young are so disrespectful in America unlike at home for her. Another conflict she experiences is having her uncle hit her aunt in front of her, but having no idea how to react to the situation because her aunt forgives her uncle almost instantly after getting hit. I would find it very confusing if
Living in a diverse world should be something a person should be proud of. Getting to know a person’s culture and their beliefs should be a wonderful ability. Respecting one another is important, even though a lot of people still disregard that, which should discontinue. We should all start to learn how to make this world a better place,
Bharati Mukherjee’s story, “Two Ways to Belong in America”, is about two sisters from India who later came to America in search of different ambitions. Growing up they were very similar in their looks and their beliefs, but they have contrasting views on immigration and citizenship. Both girls had been living in the United States for 35 years and only one sister had her citizenship. Bharati decided not to follow Indian traditional values and she married outside of her culture. She had no desire to continue worshipping her culture from her childhood, so she became a United States citizen. Her ideal life goal was to stay in America and transform her life. Mira, on the other hand, married an Indian student and they both earned labor certifications that was crucial for a green card. She wanted to move back to India after retirement because that is where her heart belonged. The author’s tone fluctuates throughout the story. At the beginning of the story her tone is pitiful but then it becomes sympathizing and understanding. She makes it known that she highly disagrees with her sister’s viewpoints but she is still considerate and explains her sister’s thought process. While comparing the two perspectives, the author uses many