Aria A Memoir Of A Bilingual Childhood Analysis

The culture we are raised in has a great impact in the way speak, the way we act, the way we view other people and who we are comfortable with. This makes us have a bias towards different cultures. This has been a problem in society for a long time, Richard Rodriguez, in his article “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” demonstrates how in his childhood, about fifty-years ago, kids viewed him in a strange way because of his ethnicity (group of people that have a certain racial, cultural, religion or other traits in common.) and language. “Walking down the sidewalk, under the canopy of tall trees, I’d warily notice the (suddenly) silent neighborhood kids who stood warily watching me nervously, I’d arrive at the grocery store to hear their
Culture also determines the way we perceive someone and how someone will perceive us, by someone’s way of speaking (language) and ethnic background. Even if their ethnic background is unknown we tend to make an estimation to judge a person. We have to take in mind that this is done intentionally at times. How does culture affect our self-identity? Culture informs perception. Our culture defines our world view, how people view us and how we view ourselves and
How does culture affect our self-identity? By the way we are branded with our culture, our own culture gives us this identity and since it is given to us then we view and judge other cultures and the people involved with them. That is how racism comes into play. Racism originates from culture and its perceptions. The way we interpret someone when they speak is all our culture and the perceptions in it, all cultures have different perceptions and some can be wrong. A certain culture can not say what is right or wrong in another culture or ethnicity, because they do not have an emic (an approach to gathering data that investigates how local people think in terms of its internal elements) viewpoint. They immediately have a bias due to the etic (an outsider perspective to a culture) approach. They should not have a say because it becomes racism with a