The Power of Non-Fiction Writing
The universal theme throughout the four non-fiction pieces was cultural struggle. Each piece gave its own unique take about how foreign people have difficulty incorporating themselves into an unknown culture, and how members of a certain culture have difficulty escaping their current lifestyle. The power of non-fiction makes us as readers recognize the cultural hardship of integrating into a culture, and the hardship of migrating from one culture to another.
In today’s society, cultures have a hard time accepting someone into their way of life. The incoming members are subject to stereotype based profiling making them feel uncomfortable. David R. Counts, author of Too Many Bananas, goes into great depth on how he personally felt the cultural hardship of uncomfortability , “ The problem wasn’t that we had paid too much ; it was that we had paid at all...we had shamed him.”(291,2) The …show more content…
Psychology Today also touches on the idea of cultural integration in its 2008 article, “Plight of the Little Emperors.” Almost every Chinese child grows up under the the metaphorical magnifying glass of their parents. At the earlier stages of childhood, they are unaware of what they are being trained to be, a student at a high level university. Then, when they reach their adolescence they’re thrown into the world of the National College Entrance Exam or “China’s magnified version of the SAT”(42,3) The constant pressure of
The universal theme throughout the four non-fiction pieces was cultural struggle. Each piece gave its own unique take about how foreign people have difficulty incorporating themselves into an unknown culture, and how members of a certain culture have difficulty escaping their current lifestyle. The power of non-fiction makes us as readers recognize the cultural hardship of integrating into a culture, and the hardship of migrating from one culture to another.
In today’s society, cultures have a hard time accepting someone into their way of life. The incoming members are subject to stereotype based profiling making them feel uncomfortable. David R. Counts, author of Too Many Bananas, goes into great depth on how he personally felt the cultural hardship of uncomfortability , “ The problem wasn’t that we had paid too much ; it was that we had paid at all...we had shamed him.”(291,2) The …show more content…
Psychology Today also touches on the idea of cultural integration in its 2008 article, “Plight of the Little Emperors.” Almost every Chinese child grows up under the the metaphorical magnifying glass of their parents. At the earlier stages of childhood, they are unaware of what they are being trained to be, a student at a high level university. Then, when they reach their adolescence they’re thrown into the world of the National College Entrance Exam or “China’s magnified version of the SAT”(42,3) The constant pressure of