In "Two Kinds", there are two different perspectives and two different internal beliefs. “She had come to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in china”(Amy Tan 18). She is explaining how her mother moved, but originally stayed in China. Tan uses fragments to describe …show more content…
In the self-portrait, she’s holding the mexican flag and the american flag is covered in smog. In the poem, she says how in mexico they would speak spanish in an mexican restaurant, but in america they would speak english and spanish. Her perspective on her culture was deeply rooted into her mexican cultural identity. Also, it seems as if that she is not Americanized. Her living in America expressed her love for her Mexican cultural identity because she was able to compare the two different ways of life. Her being "Algeria", meaning she flaunted her attitude, personality, and happiness.She was legend and very important by expressing herself through the paintings she …show more content…
Like in "Two Ways To Belong In America", the sister's culture didn't matter to her. Bharati, the sister her culture didn't influence her views on the world nor what she did and wanted to be in life."I was prepared for the emotional strain that came with marrying outside my ethnic community"(Mukherjee 70). Bharati was saying how she was ready for the emotional strain of those around her because she married someone outside her ethnic community. She went against her whole culture by marrying someone outside her culture and her father was supposed to choose her groom. However, she went against her beliefs she did what makes her happy which shows you culture doesn't always influence the way he or she views the