Cultural Synthesis When someone thinks of traditions they might think of how they go about their life completing their own tasks their own way. Although that statement is right the more formal definition of tradition is “a continuing pattern of culture beliefs or practices.” In the short story “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau, and other similar short stories, she explains how tradition and ethnicity are important in culture. The definition of tradition deeply relates to culture in that culture can change someone’s point of view on the world when traditions and ethnicity are effectively used. Some people do not understand the drastic effects that someone’s traditions play on their own point of view. In the short story “Where Worlds Collide”
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For example in the short story “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau, The author comes into many conflicts and strict differences in ethnicity and views of the world. For example the author describes being in an “Anglo-Indian day school in Zorinabad” (1). The author then explains how they are Indian compared to the British majority in the school. In the story one of the British administers even said that “Indians cheat” (38) when describing why all people of the same ethnic background had to be segregated. Although this is clearly a form of racism, someone of a different cultural and ethnic background was split from others because of someone else’s horrible point of view on the world. This helps to show how culture can change someone’s point of view on the world when Ethnicity is at …show more content…
In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan the author explains how she did not want to commit to the same normality’s of her families traditions and ethnicity and has no effects on her own point of view. For example the author with a distinct “Chinese” (4) ethnicity that contains its own traditions, explains to her mother that she is “not going to play anymore.” (62) The author in this example is showing how she is not interested in what her mother is forcing her to partake in as a family tradition or aspiration. This statement even displays the distinct difference between the author and her mother’s point of views even though they share the same traditions and the same ethnicity.
Although traditions and ethnicity are proven and disproven to be large contributors in someone’s point of view, Overall it can be assumed that through “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, and her take on being resilient to social norms, Through “Where Worlds Collide” by Pico Iyer, and his take on fast pace capitalism being clearly different, and even through “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau, and her description of others with very definite and different views on the world, that culture can, and most likely will, change someone’s point of view on the world when traditions and ethnicity are effectively
For example in the short story “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau, The author comes into many conflicts and strict differences in ethnicity and views of the world. For example the author describes being in an “Anglo-Indian day school in Zorinabad” (1). The author then explains how they are Indian compared to the British majority in the school. In the story one of the British administers even said that “Indians cheat” (38) when describing why all people of the same ethnic background had to be segregated. Although this is clearly a form of racism, someone of a different cultural and ethnic background was split from others because of someone else’s horrible point of view on the world. This helps to show how culture can change someone’s point of view on the world when Ethnicity is at …show more content…
In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan the author explains how she did not want to commit to the same normality’s of her families traditions and ethnicity and has no effects on her own point of view. For example the author with a distinct “Chinese” (4) ethnicity that contains its own traditions, explains to her mother that she is “not going to play anymore.” (62) The author in this example is showing how she is not interested in what her mother is forcing her to partake in as a family tradition or aspiration. This statement even displays the distinct difference between the author and her mother’s point of views even though they share the same traditions and the same ethnicity.
Although traditions and ethnicity are proven and disproven to be large contributors in someone’s point of view, Overall it can be assumed that through “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, and her take on being resilient to social norms, Through “Where Worlds Collide” by Pico Iyer, and his take on fast pace capitalism being clearly different, and even through “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau, and her description of others with very definite and different views on the world, that culture can, and most likely will, change someone’s point of view on the world when traditions and ethnicity are effectively