Essay On African-American Culture

Amir was an immigrant from India who owned a small fabric store and liked to work in the garden. Starting his story with a comparison between American and Indian cities, Amir gave us an example with “million crabs living in million crevices”. Definitely, he did not refer to real crabs. Generally speaking, he was talking about people who lived in America, and about their attitude toward others. American people are too busy with their problems and do not care about their fellow citizens. A person here is either a friend or a foe. In contrast, Amir described people in India who are more friendly and respectful. India is known as a country with an old culture, where people respect each other and treat everybody in a polite way. Amir can be compared to Ana from the second chapter since he had to pass through the similar experience: he made judgments based on appearances without knowing the reality. During his story, Amir made some references to polish people who lived in Cleveland. So, all his knowledge about Polish consisted of the facts that men were steelworkers, and women cooked cabbage. Amir never wondered what was hidden under appearances before he met a Polish lady in the garden, who made him change his preconceived ideas. A Polish lady planted carrots right next to Amir, and unlikely to the other

He was an African-American teenager who looked dangerous, and people from the entire neighborhood tried to avoid him. All the time, when Roice was in the garden, people were afraid of him. Nevertheless, after people found some fact about Roice such as he had two sisters, liked cats and worked very well with his hand, they started to communicate with him. Furthermore, after Roice helped to catch a man, who assaulted a woman with a knife and stole her purse, he became trusted and honored. Roice was not a black teenager, he was Roice, and people from neighborhood respected