Culture: Shaping Our Perception of Society

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The way someone is raised will be the way they view others and the different pieces of society.There are some key factors that change your view on society and that is Culture! In the personal essay “Ethnic Hash” by Patric J. Williams mentions how a variety of things determine how you see the world around you. In the story Patric says “habits,customs,and common traits of the social group by which I have been guided in life.” Williams. This shows all the different things in life that can change your vision on the world around you. To be able and see the world in a certain way you have to be able to identify your own culture identity first. Changing your view of the world is common by your own family going through a family experience or your friends doing important changes in your life and won't leave you with the same image on the world. Just on the way you eat changes your view of the world makes you think of others in a different way on the food they eat. …show more content…

“ I am an American citizen and she is not. I am moved to thousand of long term residents are finally telling the oath of citizenship.” ( Mukherjee). This is showing why one of the siblings think differently from the other. Even though one thinks that they are superior than the other. People see others as if they are odd, they are still the same through the inside and the outside. We are still humans. In the poem my mother pieced quilts by Teresa Palomo Acosta the author uses a quilt to convey her story and show a bit of her culture threw memories of her life .”Stretched out/ready/shouting/celebrating knotted with love the quilt sings on”(Acosta). This proves that this isn't just a quilt but

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