Cultural Diversity In The Last Runaway By Tracy Chevalier

Adaptation is the adjustment to one's surrounding conditions. Many animals experience this through physical and behavioral changes based on new obstacles they may face in their environments. They could be surrounded by new species of predatory animals or sources of food that require a new set of skills. Similarly, this can be experienced by humans as well. When a person finds themself in a new place they may need to change in order to survive. In Amy Tan’s fiction novel, The Joy Luck Club, immigrant Chinese mothers share their life stories from back in China, their journies to the states, and the relationships with their American born daughters. They learn a new language, society and overall way of life. However, assimilation into the American culture dramatically separates the connection between the mother’s and their daughters. The mother’s lost themselves on their way to the United States and must deal with the negative realities of their American born children, and see their daughters drifting further away from their culture.

During the mid 17th century two regions carved roots for England in North America. Coming from the same homeland one would assume their inner workings would closely mirror each other but this was not the case for the New England and Chesapeake colonies. Though faced with similar hardships, the ways they handled the difficulties starkly contrast one another.

Cultural shock is a common feeling a person experiences when transitioning into a completely different environment and living situation. Throughout the world, immigrants experience many difficulties when assimilating into a new culture.

Throughout history, we have seen a plethora of people leaving their original lives behind for the new opportunities in America, but are let down by the harshness of our culture. In the story, Arrival: 1960 by Pablo Medina, we learn about a young Cuban family who make a great move to the United States, more specifically New York City. The main character begins the story high spirited and excited for their new home for it would contain new experiences. In contrast he begins to see the reality within the city and at his school further into the story. He discovers that his new environment is not at all what he expected and on top of that he is faced with a culture that is abstract to his previous beliefs of identification. His high

Pederson (7) explains that there are stages of culture shock, which he identifies as the honeymoon, negotiation, adjustment, and adaptation. In the honeymoon phase, a person is likely to get excited about being in a new place, meeting new people, tasting new foods, and acquiring new habits. However, as time passes by, they get into a phase of negotiation, where the differences between the culture one is used to and the one they find themselves in start to become apparent. Feelings of anxiety, anger, and frustrations start to take shape as unfavorable events perceived as strange come in the way of the person 's life, especially if a person does not feel accepted in the new culture (Mukherjee 273). Loneliness may set in, and the urge to go back to the familiar culture strongly comes into play. However, as time goes by, adjustment sets in, usually within six to twelve months, and one gets accustomed to the culture and also comes up with a routine. By this phase, one knows what is expected of them, and life once again becomes ‘normal.’

She had to raise their children on her own in a time where women had many burdens and duties to fullfill. In one of the many letters the couple exchanged, Abigail says “Here i serve my partner, my family and myself and enjoy the satisfaction of your serving country.” One believes this showed that Abigail, through all the hard times, still enjoyed and was happy to serve others. Although she did take on a dominate role, in a society that frowned upon women taking charge, she and John Adams were sure to not make Abigail too dominate for society to handle. In addition, One beleives the amount of times John Adams was away from Abigail actually strengthened their relationship. This is because they would have had to work harder than many other married couples at the time to keep their realtionship in tack. Which is proven which

housewifery, we know very little about Abigail, including where she was born and who her

How can immigrating to a new country affect a person's identity and the way they see themself? The novel How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, written by Julia Alvarez, takes place in both America and the Dominican Republic. It tells the story of a family with four daughters immigrating to America from the Dominican Republic. The story is told backwards starting with the four girls during their adult years, and as the story goes on it goes back to their childhood years. With the story being told that way, as the story progresses the reader gets to see how the girls grew up to become the sisters at the beginning of the novel. The second youngest sister of the four, Yolanda, has been affected by the immigration to America in multiple ways.

I would best describe Culture Shock as a roller coaster ride- fun and exciting, yet a little scary and daunting. It happens from Country to Country, from state to state, city to city and within neighborhoods. Not everybody experiences it in the exact same way. Culture Shock occurs when one enters an unfamiliar place where cultural traits, social norms, beliefs and customs may not be in line with what they are familiar with. Wikipedia best describes Culture Shock in four phases; the Honeymoon, Negotiation, Adjustment and the Mastery Phase, and I've experienced them all firsthand and can attest to their importance from an Anthropological standpoint.

Abigail Adams likes her new surroundings but she thinks that they could be improved and that they are different than what she is used to. She talks about how they don't have a fence or kinds of stuff she had at her house but she said that she is making it work and that it is still a nice place.Overall she likes it but she still thinks that it could be better and that they could improve it but it is still good.She also talks about how the house is really big and that she sees things pass and repass.

Although I have a different reason for migrating here in America, I can feel the afflictions of Lee’s family. The story describes the series of misfortunes due to cultural disparities. Their challenges along the way and

In the texts “Legal Alien”, “Two Ways to Belong in America”, and “Every Day Use” a person’s culture is shown to affect the way they view others and the world until they have social interactions with a different culture. In “Two Ways to Belong in America,” a personal essay by Baharti Mukherjee, there are two Indian sisters, Baharti and Mira, their culture guides their choices before the come to America. Once they intermingle with American culture the choices they make become their own. “Like well-raised sisters we never said what was really on our minds…” (Mukherjee 90).

doing from her country and how she hasn't completely gotten used to the American culture. In this story

In Chapter 13, “Navigating Marginality Search for My Own Truth” by Yukari Takimoto Amos was really an eye opening how she was treated when she traveled to Japan. One of my favorite quotes was “Culture shock can be fruitful learning process that brings understanding of different cultures and deepens knowledge of self” because there are a lot of things you

This proves how people’s cultures distort the way they view the world and others, she felt like she couldn’t fit in with the new society because she didn’t look or talk like them. Her views were changed even more when the US started to send immigrants back to their country even if they had a green card. When they started deporting immigrants one of the sisters felt “used” (was her words), she started viewing the people of America worse than she did before. The sister thought that the American culture didn’t act like this in the past and she didn’t understand why they were doing this now. In