An Indian Father's Plea By Amy T An Analysis

Have you ever been to a completely new environment or country? If you did, how did it feel? What was going through your mind? It probably felt weird, strange, hostile, ect. So when others come into your country that’s exactly what they feel. So we shouldn’t discriminate others who seem to be different because we’ve all been there once too and we all know how it feels. For example in the essay by Robert Lake “An Indian Father’s Plea” his son, Wind Wolf, went through a lot at school because of his cultural background. In class all the kid tried to avoid him and they made fun of him because of his Native American background. His father even said “It takes a long time to absorb and reflect on these kinds of experiences, so maybe that is why you think my Indian child is a slow learner” (Lake, p.75). So this quote shows that people with a different cultural identity than others take longer to learn and understand their new world, because they’re completely new to the new environment so they are still observing and taking in information. So it might take foreigners longer to get used to your environment. …show more content…
A great example is the novel excerpt by Amy Tan “Two Kinds”. It's about a girl and her mother living in America after losing everything back in China. But she and her mother had completely different perspectives on living in America. Her mom believed that you can be anything you want in the United States like a prodigy, a government official, rich, ect. Amy even said “My mother believed you can be anything you wanted in America. You can open a restaurant.You can work for the government and get a good retirement” (Tan,p.18). But Amy believed that you cannot be anything you want, she believed that it’s best just to be yourself. So in many cases people from the same home can have different perspectives on other