different culture will open your eyes and make you realize how much culture and diversity there actually is. Every culture has different views on every subject, and every culture has beauty within them. In the essay "An Indian Father's Plea" by Robert Lakes , it gives an example of the way your own culture informs the way you view the world. In this essay, since the father is telling the story of how they thought his son was not smart, but he really actually is. It's Just that he was taught
of cultural identity is a serious problem affecting mainly children, as they are more impressionable and have a stronger desire to conform. For example, in “An Indian Father’s Plea” by Robert Lake, the speaker’s son “came home crying and said he wanted to have his hair cut” as a result of bullying from other kindergarteners in his class (Lake). At an early age, Wind-Wolf becomes ashamed of his
their cultural identity as the main focus in their stories. These include An Indian Father’s Plea and Ethnic Hash. These stories show how different people have found and been affected by cultural identity. People should be wary that others might not always be familiar with the traditions of a culture because they might’ve been in one culture for a long time. This is shown in the text, An Indian Father’s Plea, by Robert Lake because there are cultural differences that made the 5-year-old son of the
Culture builds up and shapes how people view the world and the people in it. It determines how we judge and view the way others act, look, and even how they think. In the texts “Where worlds collide”, “An Indian Father’s Plea”, and “Two Kinds”, it is shown that a person’s views of others and the world are solely determined by their culture. In Pico Lyer’s short story “where worlds collide”, a group of immigrants arrive in California only to find that America is not exactly what they expected. “They
the two sisters in “Two Ways to Belong in America”, and the father in the letter/short essay “An Indian Father's Plea”. All these people have different past and things they’re going through. The two sisters in “Two Ways To Belong In America” both have their different stories from their past, one likes America the other does not because they betrayed her. Next, the father from “An Indian Father’s Plea” sees America differently because the school was labeled his kid a “slow learner” which made him
Culture influences people’s perspectives of the world and others through their childhood and how, when, and where they were raised. In the essay, “An Indian Father’s Plea,” Robert Lake writes about how his Indian child’s traditional way of learning is different from those in western education systems and that he's not a “slow” learner but learns in a unique way from his peers. In the personal essay, “Two Ways to Belong in America,” Bharati Mukherjee describes her differing views of living in America
the two sisters in “Two Ways to Belong in America”, and the father in the letter/short essay “An Indian Father's Plea”. All these people have different past and things they’re going through. The two sisters in “Two Ways To Belong In America” both have their different stories from their past, one likes America the other does not because they betrayed her. Next, the father from “An Indian Father’s Plea” sees America differently because the school was labeled his kid a “slow learner” which made him
Culture affects people’s perspectives of the world and others through their upbringing and how, when, and where they were raised. In the essay, “An Indian Father’s Plea,” Robert Lake writes about how his Indian child’s traditional way of learning is different from those in western education systems and that he's not a “slow” learner but learns in a different way from his peers. In the personal essay, “Two Ways to Belong in America,” Bharati Mukherjee describes her differing views of living in America
Is culture the reason behind why people perform their actions?In the short story “Everyday Use,” by alice walker, one of the daughters denies her culture. In the essay “An Indian Father’s Plea,” by Robert Lake, the other students and teacher makes fun of the son, Wind-Wolf. In the Novel excerpt “Two Kinds,” by Amy tan, Jing-mei’s mother expects her daughter to keep to her mother’s perspective of culture. Culture influences people’s views on life. Culture influences people because a person might
it continues to appear. To begin with in, “By Any Other Name” written by Santha Rama Rau throughout the story it tells how Santha and her sister Premila go to an Indian school where everyone only speaks English, but toward the end it tells how the both sisters were treated for having a different race.Rau reveal, At The Anglo-Indian day school in Zorinabad to which my sister and I were sent when she was eight and I was five and half they changed our names” (43). The headmistress decided to change