THE CULTURAL CONFLICTS OF EAST AND WEST
T.S. Eliot described the word culture which means, ‘makes life worth living.’ Culture plays a very significant role in the development of the country. Culture plays a vital role for making a person perfect in their life. Culture makes the countries very unique. Every country has different cultural activities and ritual when they celebrate some traditional occasions. Each and every country has different belief system, custom, rules and ideas. In every country people followed their rituals according to their culture, Because of this cultural variation, there is a clash between the countries. Cultural clash is nothing but, a type of conflict that happens when different cultural values and beliefs …show more content…
In this novel, the protagonist of the novel Jyoti suffered by this belief in many situations. Here major superstitious belief is astrology. Their belief is expressed by his words when they saw the horoscope of Jyoti, he predicted her widowhood and exile. “Life times ago, under the banyan tree in the village of Hasnapur, an astrologer cupped his ears –his satellite to the stars –and foretold my widowhood and exile. What is to happen will happen?” (Mukherjee,3) So after the marriage of few years, of her life she becomes the widow and exile as predicted by the astrologer. Because of this power of astrologer people believe them more than god and they believed this superstitious belief as their customs. But in American culture people do not have this kind of belief as their custom. They live their life for today with happiness not thinking about the future …show more content…
In Indian culture people wanted to migrate to other countries for a job or studies, without thinking about their motherland, and they leave it. They think in other countries only, they give proper education but it not like that. Everyone should love their own land. In this novel displacement comes by the influence of the country. Jasmine’s husband was influenced by his professor words about America. His influence is bringing out in these lines as, “When I go to work in another country, it’ll be because I want to be a part of it. (Mukherjee,67) In opposite according to the American culture, people did not leave their motherland whatever it might be. Even though they were come for the tour to other countries, definitely they will be back in their homeland. As Indians we are the one who settled there without realising our
T.S. Eliot described the word culture which means, ‘makes life worth living.’ Culture plays a very significant role in the development of the country. Culture plays a vital role for making a person perfect in their life. Culture makes the countries very unique. Every country has different cultural activities and ritual when they celebrate some traditional occasions. Each and every country has different belief system, custom, rules and ideas. In every country people followed their rituals according to their culture, Because of this cultural variation, there is a clash between the countries. Cultural clash is nothing but, a type of conflict that happens when different cultural values and beliefs …show more content…
In this novel, the protagonist of the novel Jyoti suffered by this belief in many situations. Here major superstitious belief is astrology. Their belief is expressed by his words when they saw the horoscope of Jyoti, he predicted her widowhood and exile. “Life times ago, under the banyan tree in the village of Hasnapur, an astrologer cupped his ears –his satellite to the stars –and foretold my widowhood and exile. What is to happen will happen?” (Mukherjee,3) So after the marriage of few years, of her life she becomes the widow and exile as predicted by the astrologer. Because of this power of astrologer people believe them more than god and they believed this superstitious belief as their customs. But in American culture people do not have this kind of belief as their custom. They live their life for today with happiness not thinking about the future …show more content…
In Indian culture people wanted to migrate to other countries for a job or studies, without thinking about their motherland, and they leave it. They think in other countries only, they give proper education but it not like that. Everyone should love their own land. In this novel displacement comes by the influence of the country. Jasmine’s husband was influenced by his professor words about America. His influence is bringing out in these lines as, “When I go to work in another country, it’ll be because I want to be a part of it. (Mukherjee,67) In opposite according to the American culture, people did not leave their motherland whatever it might be. Even though they were come for the tour to other countries, definitely they will be back in their homeland. As Indians we are the one who settled there without realising our