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What is the impact of culture in our society
What is the impact of culture in our society
What is the impact of culture in our society
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Culture and environment can influence who we are and who we become. In both stories, "volar" by Judith Ortiz Cofer and "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, this is represented by the characters. In the story "volar" the girl is telling her own story of how different she was from her parents who grown in a different environment. While in the story "Girl", culture has an influence on the advice that the narrator was giving to the girl. Both, culture and environment can have an influence on who a person become when growing up.
In both stories there are environmental and cultural effects. From the story, we can see that the culture is introduce to the girl by the narrator. She is given advise to become a respected lady, and she would follow their cultural tradition. In the other side, in the story volar that little girl has been influence with her parent’s culture, but the environment has influence her more. More importantly she has beginning to observed the difference in the culture and is evident that she respects her parent culture when she said, “She would come to “wake me” exactly forty-five minutes after they gotten up. It was their time together at the beginning of each day and even at an early age I could feel their disappointment if I interrupted them by getting up to early”. This girl
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Looking to the story “volar” when she said, “When it was her turn to speak she would more often than not, try shifting the topic toward her desire to see her family in the Island.” you can see that when people move to other countries as an adult is very difficult to leave their culture behind, they always bring part with them. In the story “Girl” everything emphasis on what the girl need to know about the culture. What it’s been consider a lady in their culture and how to get
Alice Walker, John Updike, and Tom Whitecloud write stories in which culture plays an important role in many aspects of the conflict. In each story, a particular ethnic, occupational, social, gender, or age group's culture may be observed through characters' actions, thoughts, and speech. The decisions the characters make to resolve these conflicts in Everyday Use, A & P, and Blue Winds Dancing are affected by the characters cultural experiences. In fact, the conflict itself may be about clashing cultures or entirely generated as a result of cultural experiences. A character's culture continues to guide him as he tries to resolve the conflict. In short, culture heavily affects the three stories' conflicts.
In numerous way a character in an book can be affected or influenced by their culture in the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand a young man by the name of Louie Zamperini is affected at an early age by his culture. While reading the novel an individual would find out that Louie is the son of two Italian immigrants, few years after Louie was born he moves to this small surber city called Torrance with his family. While living in this town Louie family has to fight against prejudices of the citizen not wanting this Italian family living in the neighborhood. In the first few chapter someone would learn that in the 1920s Torrance ,California was very prejudices to the Zamperini family by trying to get the city council members from letting them move into the city.Meanwhile, Louie Italian heritage did have a small effect on him as he was becoming an adult.
Culture is a unique way to express the way one shows the world and others how different each one is. Culture affects the way one views the world and others. This is demonstrated in the stories “Ethnic Hash” by Patricia Williams, “Legal Alien” by Pat Mora, and “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau. These stories come together to show examples of how people of different cultures are viewed by others as different. Mora, Williams, and Rau all have very unique styles, and this is shown throughout the following quotes.
These stories taught that you should accept your culture and that people all over feel embarrassed by their culture. You should not be afraid to be how you are just to impress a boy like amy did in fish checks. Nor should you have to change the way you dress or look like the girls did in I Want To Be Miss America, or be classified as a slow learner just because you were taught a different way than other people. People should not be ashamed of their culture just because people do not understand it and think it is weird. You should be your self and if people can't accept that then it's their
The Chinese mothers, so concentrated on the cultures of their own, don't want to realize what is going on around them. They don't want to accept the fact that their daughters are growing up in a culture so different from their own. Lindo Jong, says to her daughter, Waverly- "I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promise. This means nothing to you because to you, promises mean nothing. A daughter can promise to come to dinner, but if she has a headache, a traffic jam, if she wants to watch a favorite movie on T.V., she no longer has a promise."(Tan 42) Ying Ying St.Clair remarks- "...because I remained quiet for so long, now my daughter does not hear me. She sits by her fancy swimming pool and hears only her Sony Walkman, her cordless phone, her big, important husband asking her why they have charcoal and no lighter fluid."(Tan 64)
Additionally, she stresses that the values of her childhood helped her to develop respect for different people. Her father influenced her a lot to feel comfortable just the way she is around her hometown; ...
It explains why she believes she would be uncomfortable and feel unsafe traveling in British Guyana where her father’s family came from, precisely because of the differences among native born individuals and those who were raised outside the area. She would have a difficult time assimilating to that culture, despite being a part of it. They would view her as an American. Her father exhibits selective assimilation in the aspects of Indian culture which he has brought with him to the United States, the celebration of Diwali and his Hindu religion, for example. However, aside from those cultural aspects which he has chosen to maintain from Indian culture, he has also largely assimilated to American culture through language, habits, and values.
Both works of literature go into depth on appearance, and how your cultural background does not determine what kind of person you are. This can be displayed in "Mericans," when Michelle is assumed to be a Mexican girl who only spoke Spanish and followed all Mexican traditions until she proved them wrong. This can be displayed in Okita's poem when Denise assumed that Okita was the enemy because of her Japanese heritage. A difference between the stories in that one is free verse poetry, and one is a short story. The common theme in both is that appearance does not determine what kind of person you
Imagine being a young girl dreaming of becoming a woman and flying like a super hero over your neighborhood, seeing everything that happens at night. Then, you wake up to realize you are still a young girl sleeping in your room with white “princess” furniture. This is part of the narrator’s dream in the story “Volar” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, but what exactly does this dream mean? Many details can be interpreted by analyzing the character and theme, both by using the reader response approach and the psychological approach made, mostly developed by Sigmond Freud’s theories.
Something that has always fascinated me is the confrontation with a completely different culture. We do not have to travel far to realize that people really lead different lives in other countries and that the saying "Home sweet home" often applies to most of us. What if we suddenly had to leave our homes and settle somewhere else, somewhere where other values and beliefs where common and where people spoke a different language? Would we still try to hang on to the 'old home' by speaking our mother tongue, practising our own religion and culture or would we give in to the new and exciting country and forget our past? And what would it be like for our children, and their children? In Identity Lessons - Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American I found many different stories telling us what it is like to be "trapped" between two cultures. In this short essay I aim to show that belonging to two cultures can be very confusing.
In conclusion, this book gave me a whole new view on life and how we can interact better with different people. The book emphasized that culture is key to understanding people. Sometimes it is hard to connect with others because they are indicated as different but in due time we can adjust. Every culture has their own traditions when it comes to what they eat, what to wear, dating, various ceremonies, holidays and more. Reading this book helped me become more accepting of who I am and where I come from.
Imagine reading a short story and have two or more different views of what you think the text is about and cannot decide on which one you believe to be right. The ideas are so similar and yet so different in their own way that it is nearly impossible to decide. This is clear in both works, “Orientation” by Daniel Orozco, and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid. The two stories both possess different issues including: issue of fact, pattern, social policy, historical and cultural context, and theme.
In both stories, the main characters are both girls. They both have mothers. They got discouraged at times because there were things that happened to them that brought them down. Cynthia wanted to talk to the boy at the grocery store but never did, and that made her discouraged. Adoja was being brought down by her Nana because her Nana thought she had too thin of legs, so that discouraged her too. But in the
“Girl” written by Jamaica Kincaid is essentially a set of instructions given by an adult, who is assumed to be the mother of the girl, who is laying out the rules of womanhood, in Caribbean society, as expected by the daughter’s gender. These instructions set out by the mother are related to topics including household chores, manners, cooking, social conduct, and relationships. The reader may see these instructions as demanding, but these are a mother’s attempt, out of care for the daughter, to help the daughter to grow up properly. The daughter does not appear to have yet reached adolescence, however, her mother believes that her current behavior will lead her to a life of promiscuity. The mother postulates that her daughter can be saved from a life of promiscuity and ruin by having domestic knowledge that would, in turn also, empower her as a productive member in their community and the head of her future household. This is because the mother assumes that a woman’s reputation and respectability predisposes the quality of a woman’s life in the community.
Her message on the different reasons why immigrants come to new countries and cultures is highly perceived in her story. Her use of rhetorical devices helps success her in her story. The usage of ethos, storytelling, word choice and structure played a major role in aiding her beliefs and illustrating them to her audience. Ethos helped her compare her and her sister’s beliefs on their culture and lifestyle in India and America. Storytelling made it possible for readers to connect with her thoughts and stay entertained throughout the paper. Her word choice and structure also helped the outline of the story and made her beliefs sound more