Cultural Differences In Rudy Puana

What is cultural differences? Cultural differences is the way they do things, look/appearance or the way they dress, and their personality or they way they are and what they do to make their character to come out. What is the book called? What is it about? Who is the main character? Red-headed hawaiian and the main character is Rudy Puana and this book is about him having red hair but a full blooded hawaiian it also talks about how Rudy grew up as a kid,teen,and young adult and how he goes through rough times as an adult but then later pursue into a being a doctor and meeting his wife Lynn. I argued that Rudy does come face to face with cultural differences throughout the novel. These cultural differences challenge Rudy’s sense of identity …show more content…
Rudy was put between speaking pidgin english or regular english. According to the author Puana he says ”My father embraced the Hawaiian way, while mother, perhaps in reaction, subscribed haole way when it came to her kids, my mom forbade pidgin in the house, dad spoke nothing but da kine pidgin.”(Puana P.11) This shows there is not only cultural differences in your appearance, physical, and the way they speak. They come in all shapes and forms. This suggests that father wanted to take it the cruise way of life nut mother wants them to study hard in school and to speak, Even if you don’t speak modern english not pidgin. Based on this passage i can conclude that there is always a cultural difference even by the way you speak even if you don’t speak like everyone else they think it’s weird and different. Overall, I think that the way you speak it shows a lot of pride in your culture and that you shouldn’t be judged for the way you speak because that defines who you are and I believe that as my own personal …show more content…
Poor, living off of welfare and having to “work harder not smarter.” Rudy was compared to a stereotype of a typical hawaiian and a typical hawaiian is not that rich and works and chases money to provide for their family because they need to feed their kids so they dont starve and doing their best to get the kids whatever they want whenever they want. Puana writes “ What they didn’t want us to become was what they called “Typical hawaiians” To them there were 2 types of hawaiians. Those who smoke ice at the bus stops given up on life before trying. Those who embraces hawaiian culture and wave protest signs.(Puana 49) This shows the different stereotypes of the typical hawaiian and they way that they are and how they behave in their environment. Also it shows what they do to make different stereotypes. This suggests that the parents don’t want their children to be the one of those stereotypes of a hawaiian they want their kids to be the successful hawaiians that preserve and change the stereotype of a Hawaiian. Based on this passage, I can conclude that there is cultural differences in physical appearance the way way that people do things or the way they act/behave around other people and public. In the end, there is always gonna be that typical hawaiian in society unless we prove the society wrong and show them that