Belonging to America My grandfather always used to explain to me how lucky I was to be able to be an American. He would inform me on how valuable it was and how I should never take it for granted. He expressed that I should feel honored to be able to have all the opportunities I do. I never understood him growing up. I did not understand how growing up somewhere‚ like America‚ versus another country could be any different. I understand now. When I was younger‚ my mother would tell different stories
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Indian citizen and stay with the culture she grew up with. Even when her sister went from their Indian culture to American culture‚ she kept the same views she had when she came to the United States of America. You can tell this by when she tells Bharati over the phone “For over 30 years‚ I’ve invested my creativity and professional skills into the improvement of this country’s pre-school system. I’ve obeyed all the rules‚ I’ve paid my taxes‚ I love my work‚ I love my students‚ I love the friends
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which this struggle is fought by identity. Put simply‚ identity is the perception of self by others‚ challenged by the social world" (Fontana & Kotarba‚ 1984‚ pp. 11). The stories I have chosen to take a look at are "A Wife ’s Story" by Bharati Mukherjee ’‚ "Eveline" by James Joyce ’‚ "Going Home"
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can influence a person’s views. In Bharati Mukherjee’s essay Two Ways to Belong in America‚ she tells the story of her sister‚ Mira‚ and herself living in the United States. The quote “...we probably pitied one another. She‚ for the lack of structure in my life‚ the erasure of Indianness‚ the absence of an unvarying daily core. I‚ for the narrowness of her perspective‚ her uninvolvement with the mythic depths or the superficial pop culture of this society.”(Mukherjee 70) this quote shows the ways that
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only get used to the new environment‚ but also bear loneliness. This book reminds me another story that I have read before‚ "American Dreamer".As Bharati Mukherjee says in “American Dreamer‚” “I thought of myself as an expatriate Bengali permanently stranded in North America because of destiny or desire.” In the first ten year staying in Canada‚ Mukherjee‚ as an immigrant‚ had no sense of belonging. She felt like she was a stranger‚ and Canada‚ her husband’s country‚ was a temporary residence for her
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In Two Ways to Belong in America‚ two sisters from Calcutta‚ Mira and Bharati migrated to the United States to work and obtain a visa. Bharati’s sister‚ Mira had a hard time adjusting to the immigration laws of the United States. Mira shares the following with her sister Bharati‚ “I feed used‚” Mira raged on the phone the other night. I feel manipulated and discarded. This is such an unfair way to treat a person who was invited
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* Tagore was born on 7 May 1861. At some time towards the end of the seventeenthcentury‚ his forefathers had migrated from their native lands to Govindpur‚ one of the three villageswhich later came to constitute Calcutta. In the course of time‚ the family came to acquire propertyand considerable business interests through the pursuit of commercial and banking activities. Theyhad particularly benefited from the growing power of the British East India Company.Rabindranath’s grandfather‚ Dwarkanath
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The Benefit of English After I read “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ and “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee‚ I understand that the familiarity with the English language affect the authors a lot. All of those three writers share the same attitude that learning English can affect people’s lives. I totally agree with these three writer’s opinions that English can affect people and I think people who live
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In modern American society‚ we ask ourselves about the importance of our cultures. How does our cultural identity define us‚ if at all—and what exactly does it mean to be an American? Throughout history‚ and despite a past peppered with racial discrimination‚ America has always been an amalgamation of countless cultural identities. With this in mind‚ it can be safely said that in today’s society‚ race most definitely matters. Before the reasons of why race matters can be determined‚ we must first
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associated with migrating to a new country‚ with all its indifferences. If we are not open to change‚ we will just make it that much harder on ourselves‚ as it is tremendously beneficial to accept this new experience and completely embrace it. Bharati Mukherjee‚ a Hindu immigrant from Calcutta‚ shares her story of migration on her article American Dreamer‚ articulating that she considers the arrival to a new country a gain rather than a loss as others may presume . Adapting to this unfamiliar ethnicity
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