Your entire life is a result of your cultural experiences. It sums up who you are as a whole. Whether it is video game interests, music and art tastes, or even the food that you eat every day, it all relates to your culture. Everyone has unique characteristics that are pretty much made up by your culture. Culture is who you are. Culture is your interests, your tastes and the air that your breathe. With that being said, culture influences everything and everyone that an individual sees in the world around him/her. Think about your setting in the morning when you first wake up. It can be violent or it could be good. Your parents could be screaming about bills or they can be making you breakfast. Some people don’t even have those parents or guardians.
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In the work of poetry “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Palomo Acosta, she describes the culture she had as a child. “How the thread darted in and out, galloping along the frayed edges, tucking them in as you did us at night.”(Acosta 54) In the first two lines, it shows that she came home to her mom usually working on a quilt. The last line shows a loving, caring family that tucked Teresa in at night, an overall good environment. In the comedy “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, (My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Warner Bros, 2003.) Directed by Joel Zwick, is a good example of adapting to a different culture. The young Greek woman has trouble having her non-Greek boyfriend into her Greek culture. This can be an example on how sometimes, life just moves you around to a different culture, and you have to …show more content…
It does not have to be everything you are. In “Two Ways to Belong in America” by renown author, Bharati Mukherjee. This is the story of Bharati and her sister Mira, two young Indian sisters who try to fit in America. She quotes “We would endure out two years in America, secure our degrees then return to India to marry the grooms of our father’s choosing.”(Mukherjee 70) From this excerpt, Mukherjee gives insight to her cultural heritage and traditions that she was brought up on in India.In the end, they both break out of their culture and marry guys that were not chosen by their father. Your culture can change really quick, and as a result, change your life path. Another example would be “Everyday Use” by Mrs. Alice Walker. She is world renown for “The Color Purple”. In Everyday Use, she states that the character, Dee, “deliberately turned her back on the house” (Walker 60). This is an example of Dee being tired of the same old thing everyday and, out of suspected anger and curiosity, turns her back on the house. This is a sign of rebellion against the culture that she was brought up
In the work of poetry “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Palomo Acosta, she describes the culture she had as a child. “How the thread darted in and out, galloping along the frayed edges, tucking them in as you did us at night.”(Acosta 54) In the first two lines, it shows that she came home to her mom usually working on a quilt. The last line shows a loving, caring family that tucked Teresa in at night, an overall good environment. In the comedy “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, (My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Warner Bros, 2003.) Directed by Joel Zwick, is a good example of adapting to a different culture. The young Greek woman has trouble having her non-Greek boyfriend into her Greek culture. This can be an example on how sometimes, life just moves you around to a different culture, and you have to …show more content…
It does not have to be everything you are. In “Two Ways to Belong in America” by renown author, Bharati Mukherjee. This is the story of Bharati and her sister Mira, two young Indian sisters who try to fit in America. She quotes “We would endure out two years in America, secure our degrees then return to India to marry the grooms of our father’s choosing.”(Mukherjee 70) From this excerpt, Mukherjee gives insight to her cultural heritage and traditions that she was brought up on in India.In the end, they both break out of their culture and marry guys that were not chosen by their father. Your culture can change really quick, and as a result, change your life path. Another example would be “Everyday Use” by Mrs. Alice Walker. She is world renown for “The Color Purple”. In Everyday Use, she states that the character, Dee, “deliberately turned her back on the house” (Walker 60). This is an example of Dee being tired of the same old thing everyday and, out of suspected anger and curiosity, turns her back on the house. This is a sign of rebellion against the culture that she was brought up