people? A person’s culture informs the way he or she views others and the world because of one’s personal past and experiences affecting their point-of-view and/or perspective. Knowing that culture defines who we are‚ we can affect others as they affect even more people‚ etc. Acting like a chain reaction in how we view the world. How we view the world can be told from many different sources such as; “Two Ways to Belong in America”‚ “An Indian Father’s Plea”‚ and “Two Kinds”. These sources explaining our
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protagonist Maggie and her sister Dee both have different views on their own heritage. Also‚ in the story “Two Ways to Belong in America‚” by Bharati Mukherjee‚ sisters Mira and Bharati have the same relationship. Both sisters from each story have to embrace their backgrounds‚ while the other one assimilates to a new culture. Seemingly‚ in the two stories “Everyday Use” and “Two Ways to Belong to America‚” both Maggie and Mira accept and celebrate their heritage. Maggie from “Everyday Use” embraces her
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culture is what makes a person is a bland definition. Culture is what makes people able to say that they are different and allows them to have a different perspective in daily life. In the text such as “Legal Alien”‚ “Ethnic Hash” and “Two Ways to Belong in America”‚ they make shown that other cultures and ones own may play a role in how one views others and the world. In Pat Mora’s poem “Legal Alien”‚ it shows readers that people are sometimes guided by the culture of others. “Able to sit in a paneled
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Me‚ Myself and I Even though there are ongoing research to decipher the human mind in hopes to understand the way the mind works‚ we are no closer to understanding than when research first began in my opinion. How many times do we find ourselves trying to understand strangers‚ even our closest relatives‚ especially if they were faced with a situation in which the expected outcome was far from being reached? How many times did we replay the situation over and over in our heads with the
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Two Ways to Belong in America Tiffany Detter PRPE 108 October 3‚ 2012 Caparas Mukherjee states‚ “In one family‚ from two sisters alike as peas in a pod‚ there could not be a wider divergence of immigrant experience.” (p. 282). Bharati Mukherjee was born and raised in Calcutta‚ India and immigrated to the United States in 1961 to earn an M.F.A. and a Ph. D. in literature. In “Two Ways to Belong in America‚” Mukherjee addresses the issues that confront immigrants in America. In this passage
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Bharati Mukherjee sharing her experiences with people outside of her culture. In Bharati Mukherjee’s personal essay‚ “Two Ways to Belong in America‚” she talks about the ups and downs of the American culture from her and her sister‚ Mira’s‚ experiences. Since Bharati is more adaptive to the "American way of life‚" she really doesn’t mind the
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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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the three short stories: “Everyday Use”‚ “Two Ways to Belong in America” and “An Indian Father’s Plea”‚ it is easy to see how cultures influenced the people. The different cultures challenged the characters from each of the stories and affected how they viewed others and the world around them. In “Everyday Use”‚ it was Dee‚ who adapted to a new culture and way of living. She became educated and learned about her heritage and culture. This affected the way she viewed life. Instead of being like her
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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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