well. Culture greatly informs the way one views others because of culture‚ religion‚ etc.‚ make up your individuality/ individual identity. People see others the way they were raised to see them‚ and the way our culture and environment expects us to see them. In the story‚ “Everyday Life” by Alice Walker‚ one of the main characters‚ Maggie‚ didn’t let her culture affect the way she viewed others or the world‚ though.
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“Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee is about Bharati and her sister Mira who have emigrated from Calcutta‚ India to America. They have lived in the United States for about 35 years however they have completely different ideas about immigrant status. Bharati married an American citizen while Mira has a green card and works in pre-school education. Bharati has embraced her new found American identity whole heartedly while Mira prefers to maintain a green card. Mira feels that while
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the way we view the world and others. Every culture has different perceptions on subjects such as religion‚ government‚ family‚ war‚ etc. If you were raised in a certain culture your point of views of the world are going to be different than those of another person. However‚ one’s culture can change throughout the years and one can change their point of views. But culture still had that influence in the person in how they view the world. In the personal essay “Two ways to belong in America” by Bharati
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Emeka English comp I 08 October 2013 In the story “two ways to belong to America” the author and narrator Bharati addressed an issue of images of immigrants in America‚ and what it truly means to belong to a country. In Bharati short story “two ways to belong to America” she talks and her and her sister experience as first time immigrants migrating from India to America. At their arrival to America they were similar in a lot of ways‚ appearance and attitudes-views and sentiments. They were
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Getting into the US can in some ways be easy‚ if you have not done anything wrong that is. In Bharati Mukherjee’s “Two Ways to Belong in America”‚ I am introduced to a character Mira‚ who‚ up to a point is either refusing to gain US citizenship or thinks that having a green card‚ work visa‚ and pays taxes is good enough to call herself a citizen of the US. I believe Mira is acting incredibly selfish by not trying or even thinking of gaining US citizenship. I understand she does not want to lose her
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In the article "Two Ways to Belong in America‚" author Bharati Mukherjee writes about the experiences and the common struggles that immigrants face in the new environment. She writes the article in hopes to tell the general public of her experiences and struggles that she and her sister faced in the timeline that she publishes this piece. As new immigration laws are being passed in Congress‚ Mukherjee wants to tell her story and her sister’s to be able to communicate the life before these laws and
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them. Culture substantially informs the way one views the world and others. This is proven true by an assortment of short stories and personal essays‚ in which the authors or their characters express how they can relate to the central idea of having a culture that truly distinguishes them and their actions. The attitudes toward particular cultures plays an important role in someone’s view of the
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Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940) Contributing Editor: Roshni Rustomji-Kerns Classroom Issues and Strategies It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her
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BHARATI MUKHERJEE Two Ways to Belong in America Born in 1940 and raised in Calcutta‚ India‚ Bharati Mukherjee immigrated to the United States in 1961 and earned an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. in literature. Mukherjee is the author of several novels‚ including Tiger’s Daughter (1972) and Jasmine (1989)‚ and short story collections‚ such as The Middleman and Other Stories (1988). She teaches literature and fiction writing at the University of California‚ Berkeley. "Two Ways to Belong in America" first
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Two Ways to Belong in America by Bharati Mukherjee In “Two Ways to Belong in America‚” Mukherjee talks about the struggles of two sisters adjusting to foreign culture. Mukherjee and her sister‚ Mira‚ have opposing views on citizenship to non-native countries. Mukherjee shares her story with effective use of language to make it unique‚ as well as relatable to other foreigners to a new country. Her neutral tone makes the story special‚ especially considering the context of the story. Usually‚
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