Comparing Culture And Two Ways To Belong In America

Culture, the behaviors and beliefs that a particular social, ethnic, religious, or age group possesses. Whether we like it or not a culture is always going to be apart of our life and it is most definitely not the same for every single person. Just as each book has a different story to tell, each culture does the same thing. Culture greatly affects the way people perceive others and the world around them by giving a person their sense of right and wrong, we take what we have learned from our culture and then build or take away from that knowledge to help us view things in the world. As young children we begin to grow with the same concept of memories, what is right and what is wrong. Now even though we learn the same lesson, it does not mean that the material is going to be the same. If we think of different cultural aspects as different books it is easier to distinguish the varying effects that a culture can have on a person’s outlook on life.

This can add onto what people are taught when they are children or the opposite. For example “In one family, from two sisters alike as peas in a pod, there could not be a wider divergence of immigrant experience.” shows readers how even though the 2 sisters started off the same way, they basically wrote their own story. Through their own experiences they took what they knew already and made it different. By using what was familiar and what was new, their culture helped them form a separate outlook on the world surrounding