At times, the essay makes the reader laugh and feel concern for her struggles. Dumas tries to earn our sympathy by describing the situation of her family’s difficult names. To avoid setting an over serious tone, she attempts to reflect her humorous perspective through laughable quotes such as, “She Whose Name Almost Incites Riots” (page 751). This wise introduction lets the audience know that the essay will be an enjoyable one to read with plenty of humorous lines and content. This use of pathos makes the reader learn the message of the essay without even noticing it. Another classic example of her making the audience feel sympathy is when she said people used to think her brother’s name (Neggar) sounded like a derogatory name for African Americans. The strategy of making the audience feel sorry for the author let’s them feel as if they are somehow connected to what she is saying. They feel the urge to know what happens next and their curiosity becomes stronger with each step of her life. Because readers can become tired of hearing “sob” stories, she decides to blend in the humor throughout the main portion of the…
Peoples’ culture can change the way that they view the world and how the world views them. For example, in “An Indian Father’s Plea”, the narrator is writing a letter to his son’s school saying that his son has been mislabeled as a “’slow learner’” (Lake 75). Lake, the narrator, is explaining that the school doesn’t understand how his son learns, and that his son learns in different ways than the…
To start off, on the first day of school Dumas and her mother have difficulty getting along with the class. Dumas’ mother is told to point out Iran on the map and she failed to do so. In failing she embarrassed herself and Dumas. The reason why she could not point out Iran on the map is because she lacked education “The problem was that my mother, like most women of her generation, had been only briefly educated.”(Dumas 113).…
The contextual perspective considers the relationship between individuals and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social worlds. The bioecological approach stresses the interrelatedness of developmental areas and the importance of broad cultural factors in human development. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory emphasizes the central influence on cognitive development exerted by social interactions between members of a culture.…
People wonder about some questions like how similarities and differences of people’s behaviors emotions, motivations, and thoughts across cultures? How examines psychological diversity links between cultural norms and behavior in which particular human activities are differently influenced or sometimes dissimilar social and cultural forces? Several decades ago, cross cultural psychology has basically answered those questions. By critical and comparison, psychologists discover not only about meaningful links between a culture and the psychology of individuals living in this culture; they also advocates the idea that mental process are essentially the products of an interaction between the culture and the individual as well (Pike, 1998). In this paper, we focus on the “cultural traditional influences” on human psychology through analyzing the book names Pocho. As a lively evidence to illustrate what knowledge that cross cultural psychologists devote to human and society in the twentieth century.…
Funny in Farsi is a non-fiction story about a young girl named Firoozeh Dumas who moved from Iran to America when she was seven. Her parents, Kazem and Nazireh, and her brothers and she all moved to Whittier, California in search of a better life. Her dad, an engineeer with the National Iranian Oil Company is assigned to work for an American firm. Her dad thinks that the United States is the promised land. Dumas explains her life as an Iranian immigrant in the United States. Her stories of adapting to American life clarifies on the life of immigrants and demonstrates the struggle in overcoming adversity. She highlights her life struggles as struggling to understand English, being an outsider, and being discriminated during the Iranian revolution.…
Before critically discussing Lareau’s Unequal childhood’s paper, it is important to briefly mention a few conceptual terms in order to get the gist of what Lareau was trying to convey to her readers.…
Momma runs a store and Maya learns many lessons while living there. It is while she is living with her grandparents, that Maya starts to love Shakespeare. This is the beginning of Maya’s life-long passion for literature.…
After a rather embarrassing first day of school (with her mother,) Dumas decided that from that day on, her mother would “have to stay home”. Dumas uses a combination of a family anecdote as well as self-deprecation to…
Culture is evident in sensory and motor development, as brain networks respond to the particulars of each infant’s life and culture affects development is reading books to toddlers, a behavior that advances language development. Some families use other ways to foster literacy instead of reading books (Berger, 2011).…
Culture is what teaches individuals how, what, and when to perform in life. In “Being Weird”, Ethan Watters examines the work of Joe Henrich whose research shows how culture shapes the human mind. Childhood is an early stage where children observe the ways of their culture. Childhood games mold children in how to be individuals in their society. Games still impact individuals as they grow into adulthood. Capture the flag and House reflect on cultural norms by teaching critical thinking, gender roles and social skills.…
Children learn to act in accordance to their culture due to what their parents teach them and what they learn in school. Different countries have their own way of cooking, driving and most important, teaching. A child who is in a preschool in America, will not experience the same cultural activities as a child in China or Japan. The video Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited demonstrates how preschools in these three countries teach their students in accordance to their culture. This video also shows different Behaviorism and Constructivism aspects for each school.…
No matter how hard we try, or how much we study, it is pretty much impossible to become an expert on all the world’s cultures. It is possible however, to be enlightened on a few cultures through some effort and understanding. That is just what we did, through interviewing three people who were raised in cultures different from ours. The following are results from what we learned about different cultural dimensions.…
A Memior of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas is all about her life growing up in California after her dad is moved there but is company form Iran. Being born in Iran she had not learned much English so when she moved to the United State she slowly learned and was the translator for her mother a lot of the time. In her younger years she moved around about every two years and eventually she settled in America after her dad retired from the oil refinery in Iran. Since she was light skinned and had dark hair she could pass for an America as long as she did not speak because of her accent, this abled her in many ways.…
When considering the great number of 7.5 billion people in the world, it is not surprising that there are numerous kinds of cultures as well. Unique and traditional cultures exist in each country and even in each individual. Cultural identity refers to how strongly one feels about their belonging to an ethnic group, religion, or social group. In addition, they’re usually involved in groups that their parents are in, or they recommend them to be in when they’re young to form their own cultural identity. Therefore, their parents affect them in establishing their perspective. However, conflicts can arise when they do not share the same feelings about their surroundings as their…