An Indian Father's Plea By Robert Lake And Bharati Mukherjee

A popular conservative columnist, Jonah Goldberg, writes: Cultures grow on the vine of tradition. What this means is that the fruits of our culture are largely based on tradition and like a Fiddler on the Roof, every culture’s social classes: mother, father, priest, beggar, and matchmaker have traditional roles to play, in order to keep society functioning smoothly as the world around them changes. However, a person’s paraticular culture greatly affects the way he or she views others and their world. Three authors whose articles support my thesis are Samantha Rama Raw, Robert Lake, and Bharati Mukherjee. In these authors’ narratives, they explain how one's culture can affect their way of life and how they view their world, based on the

The father reveals in his letter that Wind-Wolf may be slow at grasping the learning styles of a white man’s classroom because of how he was brought up in a Native American culture, where he studied with all of his five senses and explored the world around him as an integral part of the Natural order. This story dramatically displays that a person's culture greatly affects how we see our world and others in it, through the different perspectives of Wind-Wolf, demonstrated by his teacher and his dad. The teacher feels Wind-Wolf is slow because he is unable to grasp the methods and tools that they are using in the classroom, which is aimed at his white peers. In his white teacher's culture being able to understand the things in the classroom that white people value and find important is what is considered smart and since Wind-Wolf is unable to do so yet, he is considered slow in that culture. The dad sees Wind-Wolf as someone who isn't slow, but knows different things and learns in different ways. In some Native American Indian cultures, they go to many ceremonies and bondings, they know a lot about the land they live on, and they understand the many different cultures and languages of their neighboring tribes. All of which Wind-Wolf has

One marries another Indian and acquires labor certification and stays close to her culture, while the other marries an American and bypasses the traditional route. In the story, Mira the sister who married the Indian man states: “I feel used...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.” This feeling demonstrates that because of her cultural background and immigrant status, she and the other immigrants out there, regardless of following all the rules and contributing many things in society are treated harshly. She feels betrayed that America changes its rules in midstream and now views America and immigrants becoming citizens as a negative, due to how she was treated because of where she was