Excerpt From On Seeing England For The First Time Analysis

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In Jamaica Kincaid’s article “Excerpt from on Seeing England for the First Time”, she notes that people should not forget their own traditional culture and should protect traditional cultural. Kincaid lived in a British colony when she was a child. When she saw England on a map in her school, she thought England was a beautiful place and like a jewel. In addition, England is an important and seriousness and adoration in her country because most people thought England is a leader of the country, and most things came from England in the life of her childhood, such as a cup of cocoa, shoes, and clothes. In a hot summer, her father wore a felt hat which came from England just because he saw a picture that an Englishman wore a similar felt hat in

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