Views on Different Cultures Presented in Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan and Search For My Tongue

Pride is being proud of a skill or a particular quality. In this case Laetitia’s mom is honoured to represent the Blackfoot culture. She has showed many good traits in her personality, one being pride. As she reached the border a guard told her “Now, I know that we got Blackfeet on the American side and the Canadians got Blackfeet

Pride is a very relevant issue in almost everyone's lives. Only when a person is forced to face his pride can he begin to overcome it. Through the similar themes of her short stories, Flannery O'Connor attempts to make her characters realize their pride and overcome it.

takes great pride in it. It seems that she looks down on or pities her mother and sister because they are

"Mother Tongue" and "How if Feels to be Colored Me", touch upon the issues that are faced everyday among human beings. Human beings struggle throughout their lives to understand who they are. Amy Tan and Zora Hurston do this through language. Their storytelling tells their audience what has made them who they are through the use of metaphors, similies, and ancedotes.

think that she is cheating and revels in this victory by saying “in his own

people who caused despair to her husband and his friends, she takes pride in the fact that she has

{Pride} -(a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.) As throughout the story of The Glass Castle we have seen all personalities and characteristics even how Jeanette’s mother, Rosemary acts. Rosemary has shown pride throughout the story. She is not ashamed to let people know she is homeless. She never takes the offers Jeannette gives her, she even has her own land but still lets her pride get in the way now she is living the life as a homeless person.

Many cultures have certain traditions that are very important to them. For example, the Hmong culture has a tradition about marriage. When a Hmong man wants to get married and start a family, he has to ask two specific men called “Mekoob”, to go with him to his women’s house and formally ask the parents for their daughter’s hand in marriage. They later talk about the wedding plan and the price for everything. The husband and his family have to pay for all the expenses.

In 1998, a Na’Na’Kila Institute was established that helps protect and the development of the Haisla culture, including language. The Na’Na’Kila helped bring back the Haisla totem pole (Gyp’sgolox) that was removed in 1929 and was missing for more than 60 years. In 1991, it was discovered in the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm. On July 1,2006, the totem pole

feelings about herself are shown outwards. She is very conceded to the point she thinks she is

Although this may be true to an extent, our culture moulds us into respectable and responsible human beings. Traditions link us to the past generations of our family and give us a better understanding of our culture in general. As easy as it seems at times, to ignore where you come from and change who you are, it takes a proud person to be proud of their culture and therefore find their place.

Writing can present a lot of messages to it readers and audiences. It conveys a message that allows one to see what is their role and identity in society. The way they convey their message is by presenting their own language into their writing.The use of language in writing creates and identity in the act or experience of writing. As it is shown in the text How it feels to be forcibly fed by Djuna Barnes, The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick, and Tlilli, Tlapalli/ The path of the Red and Black Ink by Gloria Anzaldua.

she expresses great love and a great sense of loss, but she does it in

For this paper, a comparison between my culture; the Indian culture; specifically the Hindu culture and the culture of the largest ethnic group in Malaysia; the Malay

While looking upon my personal culture and my family’s culture in an attempt to find appropriate dishes for this assignment, it became apparent to me that I have no definite culture. Whereas I have lived in Canada my whole life, my family’s background has engaged me in varying cultures, though I have never felt truly attuned to one culture. On the other hand, my father is a first generation Canadian, his parents both from Scotland. Though aware of my Scottish origins and my grandparents’ migration to Canada, Scottish culture has never been explicitly celebrated amongst those in my family. Furthermore, my family previously migrated from Ireland during the Irish famine, resulting in Irish culture to also represented in my family’s culture. Variously, my mother’s side of the family has lived in Canada for many generations, but I do not consider myself as being authentically Canadian. Accordingly, throughout my childhood, I was never encouraged to celebrate an explicit culture. Furthermore, religion was never prominent in my life either, as my parents decided against baptizing any of my siblings and me, as per the family tradition, because they wished for us to have religious freedom. However, because of the rest of my family’s religion, as well as my background, my family has always celebrated Christian holidays, though I have never been to church for a reason other than a wedding. I find that without any cultural ties from my family’s history and practices, that the culture I