Assuming things about someone else's culture is a hard case of how one's culture affects the way one views the world. This happens a lot with different texts like in Two Kinds, Hapa and An Indian Father's Plea. All of which have different cultural beliefs on the world and this affects the way they view the world. Modernization significantly impacts the way one views others around the world.
Firstly in the novel excerpt “two kinds” by Amy Tan a daughter is pressured by her mom to be as good as the people on tv. The mother watches tv a lot and gets ideas on what she should be and “At first my mother thought I could be a chinese Shirley Temple” (Tan 17). While she watched Shirley Temple on tv which modernization made possible, who is in a modern …show more content…
This whole essay she talks about how people treat her and how she is different than everyone else, this is shown especially when they “even have to disguise watermelon, in case someone was peering idaly through the windows lurking about in racial judgement” (Williams 14). Due to technology which is considered part of modernization, people have different opinions about what they think of ethnic people. In this case they had to hide watermelon because of what people thought when they ate it, which due to modernization a stereotype was formed that black people like watermelon. Modernization has especially impacted Lynn in the story Hapa. For Lynn she has always wondered “how a quarter measurement defines who I am”(Lynn 54). From technology again, looks and other traits can make someone assume who you are as a person. But what truly makes you, is how others who know you very well and how you think you are as a person. No one should be able to judge you or make assumptions of the color of your skin or what you like to eat. Modernization in total has to do with many stereotypes or opinions other have on each other all the way around the
Firstly in the novel excerpt “two kinds” by Amy Tan a daughter is pressured by her mom to be as good as the people on tv. The mother watches tv a lot and gets ideas on what she should be and “At first my mother thought I could be a chinese Shirley Temple” (Tan 17). While she watched Shirley Temple on tv which modernization made possible, who is in a modern …show more content…
This whole essay she talks about how people treat her and how she is different than everyone else, this is shown especially when they “even have to disguise watermelon, in case someone was peering idaly through the windows lurking about in racial judgement” (Williams 14). Due to technology which is considered part of modernization, people have different opinions about what they think of ethnic people. In this case they had to hide watermelon because of what people thought when they ate it, which due to modernization a stereotype was formed that black people like watermelon. Modernization has especially impacted Lynn in the story Hapa. For Lynn she has always wondered “how a quarter measurement defines who I am”(Lynn 54). From technology again, looks and other traits can make someone assume who you are as a person. But what truly makes you, is how others who know you very well and how you think you are as a person. No one should be able to judge you or make assumptions of the color of your skin or what you like to eat. Modernization in total has to do with many stereotypes or opinions other have on each other all the way around the