Identity And Culture In My Indian Daughter By Lewis Sawaquat

In today’s world, fitting into society is complicated, especially when people don’t know their true identity. Most people struggle because of their culture norms, whether that is racial or gender bias. After reading two essays from the book The Prose Reader essays for Thinking Reading and Writing ¬¬by Kim and Michael Flachman, it’s clear that identity and culture come hand in hand. The first essay For “My Indian Daughter” by Lewis Sawaquat, he talks about what he went through and some of the racial incidents that reminded him that he was different. Therefore, where he learned to be person in a racial situation and not fight back with ignorant people. In another essay Sandra Cisneros writes about how she was the only girl in a Hispanic home of six boys and fights the odds of having to be a domestic wife therefore titles her essay “Only Daughter”. When standing up against …show more content…
Sandra and Lewis had begun their grate future without even noticing. Sandra although finally felt accomplished once her father began to gave her¬¬¬¬ credit after seeing what a great writer she was after reading one of her piece, “…after what had seemed like hours, my father looked up and asking: ‘Where can we get more copies for the relatives?’”; at that point Sandra knew she did the right thing to not follow the norms and it gave her future success (129). Lewis in the other had an experience “Later in Korea I learned how to kill, how to fight, how to bully how to hate Koreans. I can out of the way tougher than ever and strangely, white” this is proof that Sawaquat knew what it was like to hate the “different” people he knew that being different was okay because although he learned to hate the Koreans he knew Americans were taught to hate the Indians (111). Therefore, he knew what it was like to be an outsider and told himself no matter what culture we are, we are all just