Indian culture

1: Culture Is The way we view figures around us. Things Like your race, religion, food, your gender, age, Social life, your clothes and so on. For example, I’m mixed with African American and Caucasian. So I have two different types of culture. My father’s side and my mother’s side. I don’t really view my two cultures differently because both sides have family events. Like Thanksgiving and Christmas. I go to one Sides first, then a few hours later go to the others. At my dad’s side of the…

Merriam-Webster defines culture as the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group. Culture can sometimes informs the way someone views other people and the world by thinking about cultural stereotypes. In the essay “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee, it discusses the struggles and stereotypes of Indians living in America. Mukherjee wrote, “…I was opting for fluidity, self-invention, blue jeans, and T-shirts, and renouncing 3,000…

Culture: The Means to Connection, Separation, and Change Culture is a common denominator that interconnects people from similar walks of life. It can span from specific beliefs, shared traditions, to relatable upbringings. When a culture a person has directly contrasts another, this leads way for disagreement. However, people who are exposed to a blend of cultures can stay passionate of their native culture, disregard their original culture for a new one, or struggle to connect several. This is…

Over generations, culture has changed drastically. Culture can be characterized as our feeling of having a place with a specific society or ethnic group. As the world is progressing cultural norms are being retested and reclassified. In today’s society people want to do things their way and not the way their ancestors have been doing. Years ago people were very narrow-minded and did things traditionally or the way that the society accepted. This was exactly the case in the film Bend it Like…

Growing Tensions: Assimilation Within Modernity Much of American history glosses over the Indian experience; the European notion that indigenous peoples were inferior and “savage” reinforced the idea that it was justified for other groups to conquer their land, steal their goods, and kill them. The story of these natives reflects the pain of their ceaseless struggle and highlights the repressed suffering they feel as they try to progress in society, simultaneously inching further from their…

the cultural background of Native Americans Indians and their struggles in society of homelessness in America. This is a self- journey where the protagonist does his best to reclaim his culture, traditions and identity. The character of Jackson Jackson demonstrates his cultural beliefs and pride, despite his current situation of homelessness and dependency with substance abuse of alcohol. Jackson shows that all forms of humanity are meaningful, culture and beliefs are important, a positive…

culture are alien to them, and they additionally feel like outsiders in American culture. As immigrants, Ashima and Ashoke make their own particular hybrid culture, a mix of American and Bengali components. They fight to keep up certain Indian traditions, while changing in accordance with American conventions, for instance, Christmas, for their children. Indian-American characters, for instance, Gogol and Moushumi every now and then feel outsider in both India and America, as though they're lost…

sees an Indian, they define themselves to be better than Indians. The East and West did not blend when globalization erased national boundaries. The first reaction of a western nation is to embrace and promote diversity. In contrast, the East’s reaction is the fear of being conquered. As the two parts of the world mingle, there arises a love-hate relationship that leads to conflict. Ethnocentrism makes us defensive as we cannot accept coming down to understanding someone else’s culture. In the…

Jumpa Lahiri is the child of Indian immigrants who she was born in England and grew up in the USA. While she is living in the United States, she suffers of conflict of cultural in during her life. Hence, her fictions afoul with conflict of cultural and lost identity among the characters of her stories. The purpose of the paper is to study multicultural problem and searching of identity in Namesake novel and Lowland novel, and collection of short stories in Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.…

different cultures. The Colonial Period covers the phase of when the European settlers came to America, the colonization of America, and the incorporation of the Europeans in the United States. Certain things like American Indians and European settlement, Puritans and rationalists, important political documents and speeches, were all a part of the Colonial Period in America. Many people are led to believe that the European explorers were the first to set foot on American soil. American Indians…