Ehrenreich’s personal views make connections with Hirsch and Provenzo in that she discusses how culture should be taught. Hirsch talks about bringing in new information to schools from other cultures and Provenzo talks about being able to build a sufficient curriculum around information that’s already found in schools, negating the need to bring in this new information. In Ehrenreich’s experience, she tries to teach her kids about their ethnicity and culture, but they are uninterested. Ehrenreich finds a certain peace when her children get older and tell her they don’t desire any more ethnic or religious identity than they already have, which corresponds with Provenzo’s idea that new cultural information doesn’t necessarily need to be brought
