As long as culture has existed, there have been a variety of culture, and as a result there are a variety of views regarding different cultures. After one has experience with the culture their family has introduced to them they go out into the real world to experience the other cultures there are. The only problem, however, is that one will experience the views of other people regarding their own culture, and in that may cause trouble regarding one 's mindset. An Indian Father’s Plea, written by Robert Lake, is a letter that was written to the elementary school teacher of his son, Wind-Wolf. Wind-Wolf has grown up with his family’s Native-American way of living, and as Lake stated, “he has already been through quite an education compared with his peers in Western society”…
These so called schools were used to strip away their native culture that consequently ends stripping away the self-identity of the native children who…
The girls of “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” and the Native Americans of the forced assimilation into the American culture were both treated poorly and disciplined harshly. The American Indian Relief Council states that, when the Indians of the forced assimilation made a mistake, they were confined and did not receive food (American Indian Relief Council) (1). The Indians were just learning, so it was unfair for the Americans to treat them so poorly. Also, in St. Lucy’s, Mirabella was “shot with a tranquillizer dart” because she did not let the nuns give her a nametag (St. Lucy’s) (239).…
In Lakota Woman, it tells a story about Mary Crow Dog who faces challenges with the Sioux tribe, and how she has a difficult time with her finding her identity and cultural background as a Sioux woman. Mary Crow Dog struggles with the identity of an Indian woman because of the domestic roles women had to play in the Native American culture. As a woman, Mary did not like how the white society would bring evilness to their Indian culture, and how the women would struggle to find their personal strength and remain loyal to their traditions. The novel discusses the issues that Indians faced with the relationship they have with the white society. The Indians were viewed as savages and didn’t have any human values, the Indians were stripped from…
Here Child notes that disease and infection were frequent throughout the schools, due to poor sanitization, malnourishment and overcrowding. These occurrences are similarly seen throughout Native American history once the white settlers arrived, as they often forced Native American tribes onto land with limited space and nourishment, and additionally brough disease that infected and killed many peoples and tribes. Further, in “Chapter Four: Homesickness,” Child accounts through the letters of the sadness, separation anxiety, and loss of sense of family and self that ensued among many of the student and families. Students were often far away from parents, so far that visitations were rare or nonexistent, and parents were often unable to truly know if their children were alright, with letters not always transpiring or school officials neglecting to send word after inquiring. These trends are, again, common place upon the white settlers entering into the Native American’s land and home.…
I. Regardless of different forms of racism, for example, her white boss’ insistence on calling her name Maya, and refusal of white dentist to treat/work on her teeth, she managed to overcome these unjust social realities. II. Her first resistance to racism came when she was fired up when Mrs. Cullinan called her name Mary, she said that her name wasn’t Mary, and broke her heirloom China. Conclusion…
In the 2005 book Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, Camilla Townsend describes the colonization of North America by the English of the 1600s and the complex relationships they led with the Native Americans. Although it seems that Pocahontas is to be the lead figure, Townsend shares details that set the groundwork of relations before Pocahontas was even thought of as an important figure in the peace effort between the Native Americans and the English in North America. Although it is impossible to know history’s exact events, Townsend pulled information from the direct journals, handwritten diaries, and scholarly articles written either by eyewitnesses or those that knew eyewitnesses of the time. In her writing, it is clear that the central…
The “Tempest” In The Wilderness Savagery, Colonization, and Religion The English colonization of places such as the Americas and Ireland led Shakespeare to write his final play The Tempest. In the essay The “Tempest” In The Wilderness, written by Ronald Takaki, it is seen that the English colonizers had a very specific lifestyle that they thought the people around the world should also follow and they were not very compromising in their views. These colonizers believed that every person should believe in Christianity and if a person did not they considered them to be a savage. All of the good a person may have done would be ignored by the English if that person engaged in certain actions or rituals the English thought were uncivil or improper.…
The United States won control over Puerto Rico in 1898 after the Spanish-American War was over, Spain had surrendered the remainder of its overseas colonial empire to the United States. Even though Puerto Ricans were not considered citizens of the United States till 1917 with the Jones Act some say that “Puerto Ricans have been ‘born in the U.S.A’ since 1898.” (Nieto, 515) Once the United States had control over Puerto Rico, they had to decide the relationship with them and in 1952 they establish the status as a commonwealth. Puerto Rico gained its own Constitution and although they can organize their local government how they want to, Congress power over the U.S territory did not change or decreased. Once this relationship was established…
Although white women have had more success in achieving equality, non-Anglo women have experienced discrimination and prejudice based on gender and ethnicity, thereby impeding their advancement towards equality within patriarchal societies. Feminism, therefore, differs among women of other ethnic groups. Because cultural identity and values also deviate from those of white women, the concept of feminism is also differs. Equality of education and employment, egalitarianism, and ethical treatment tend to become key aspects of feminism among Arab and Latina women.…
In the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” There are three different girls, Claudette, Jeanette, and Mirabella, who portray three different characteristics. The author, Karen Russell, uses a vast amount of literary devices throughout the story to help demonstrate a deeper meaning. A deeper meaning in the story is much like how the three girls have to adapt to human culture, humans everyday try to strive to be perfect and fit into society. A pack of girls raised by wolves have to learn to fit into a new environment. There were many conflicts amongst the pack, whether it was over food, miscellaneous things, or wanting to be the best.…
Everyone speaks a language, but some people speak more than one language. To learn and understand a new language can be troublesome when first starting to learn said language. Both Amy Tan and Barbara Mellix experience these struggles. Tan’s multicultural Chinese- American life explains why Tan worries about the misunderstanding and stereotypes about the Chinese language.…
When Alexie chose to include the detail of how his father was “one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose,” it raises the question that if his father’s passion for reading and learning was uncommon, how much was literature valued on the reservation? It is evident through this unpromising detail that literacy on the reservation was not valued. Alexie’s father was one of the few on the reservation who realised he must leave the reservation in order to succeed in life. His father had an obsession with books that he passed along to Alexie through his incorporation of literature in everyday life. Alexie chose to include this in order to convey how reading was non-discriminatory and was an escape from pain.…
1. I never knew that spelling in English was hard because we learn to spell by the sound of the letters. In other languages, for example Chinese, their spelling system is represented by morphemes and syllables which is more accessible units than phonemes. 2. I never knew that it will take a non-English speaker seven to ten years to learn the language.…
Process Paper I have chose my driving question “why don’t most Americans learn a second language” specifically because learning a second language has always been one of my interests. I have always wanted to learn spanish because part of my family is hispanic and it is really interesting to hear them speak spanish to each other. I got my idea of choosing this driving question from Watching my aunt and uncle communicate with each other. This project has really helped benefit the way I listen to communication and how when using another language it is easier to understand things through a different perspective. My research process started out by using britanica to search facts about why Americans don't learn a second language.…