How People View Other In 'Everyday Use' By Alice Walker

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How do you view others or the world? I would say people view others as if they are weird just because they are different in a way.They do that because of how they look or for even how they view things in a different way. For example, how a " regular person" views a gothic person. Others view the world, or others differently and weird for what they use or how they use it, and also for what they wear. The first example is from the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker. The character Dee has been gone from home for around 4-6 years in college. Ever since she has been back, which has been only for about a half of a day at most, she views almost everything different. For example when she said "I can use the churn top as a centerpiece for …show more content…
That Mexicans and Americans Live in different world's. " Drafting in memos in smooth English, able to order influential Spanish of a Mexican restaurant. " Perhaps exotic, perhaps inferior, definitely different, and viewed Mexicans as aliens. "You may speak Spanish but you're not like me ". It explains how people who speak Spanish aren't supposed to be here in America and came here illegally, or Mexicans can't understand how to speak English, and they believe that Mexicans are aliens. Lastly In “Multi-Culturalism explained in one word: HAPA” an interview written by Kristen lee you can see how one's culture inform the way views others and the world. “Dealing with the curiosity and occasional ignorance of people confused by her multi-ethnic background” . Clearly you can see that there’s already somebody probably from a different culture expecting kristen to be from a certain ethnicity when in reality she's mixed. With one’s own personal background they're raised to expect things that other people might not because of their ethnicity. Its obvious that one’s culture does inform the way one views others and the

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