Pico Iyer

Have you ever wondered to what extent does one’s culture inform the way one views others and the world? This essay is going to explain about my culture and how people view it. What is culture? Culture is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. Culture is also defined as the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. I was born in Hyderabad, India…

Assuming things about someone else's culture is a hard case of how one's culture affects the way one views the world. This happens a lot with different texts like in Two Kinds, Hapa and An Indian Father's Plea. All of which have different cultural beliefs on the world and this affects the way they view the world. Modernization significantly impacts the way one views others around the world. Firstly in the novel excerpt “two kinds” by Amy Tan a daughter is pressured by her mom to be as good as…

One of those people would be author Pico Iyer. Through his short story “Where Worlds Collide,” it seems that he believes that experiences, not culture, affects perception. Iyer uses experiences: “men shaking tins that say “Helping America’s Hopeless,” “the snack bar where a slice of pizza cost $3.19,” and “This Terminal Is in a Medfly Quarantine Area.” (Iyer 64). The experiences represent poverty, inflation, and disease, respectively. Furthermore…

Culture: the shared set of ideas, skills, institutions, customs, attitude, values, and achievements that characterize a group of people. Who someone is and what they believe legitimately characterizes them; to say it shapes their perspective of the life they and others have would be correct. A person’s culture greatly affects their views of others and the world because of situations like discrimination, social behavior, and general beliefs. Authors such as Robert Lake, or Medicine Grizzlybear,…

William Faulkner is rather well-known in the American literary sphere for his speech at the 1950 Nobel Banquet, where, after accepting his award, he begins to address an issue that he feels is plaguing young new writers of that generation: writing with the notion of the apocalypse, unyielding pessimism, and selfishness. To Faulkner, writing about human emotion, empathy, and hope are the only things worth writing about, and this is something that he feels new writers don’t include because of the…

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” (Mark Twain). The concept of relationships plays a huge role in Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His outlook on relationships is important and the relationships within a family unit is a successive theme in Twain’s novel. The context surrounding the novel reveals that he was influenced by the conditions of families and relationships in the late 1800’s. Twain uses the relationship of Huck and Jim…

Why do you like puppies? I know it is a weird question but really why do you like puppies. Is it because they are extremely fluffy and adorable? Or is it because culturally you just love them? But can also be that you love them because at nine years old you got your first dog. A person’s culture influences how people view the world and others sometimes. One’s culture helps one judge what is right or wrong. But actual life experiences can also influence why people view certain aspects of life the…

In North Korea most people don’t know what “freedom” means, in China most people don’t know what “opinion” means, in the Middle East most people don’t know what “solution” means, and in America most people don’t know what “the rest of the world” means. From shaping personalities to affecting perceptions, culture is the invisible bond that ties individuals together in a society. At a young age, people absorb cultural values and beliefs which are manifested through one’s lifestyle. Culture…

Differences of Two Worlds in “Where the Worlds Collide” Though some readers might think that “Where the Worlds Collide” by Pico Iyers, is a description of collision, it is actually about a traveler’s emotional collision while traveling to America for the first time. The traveler is amazed to know about the structure and culture of American society, as well as its differences to the traveler’s homeland culture and how its society is structured. These differences in culture as well as how their…

Culture decides and develops many things about a person point of view. Culture can develop people's point of views on thing like with politics, religion, and the world around them. The most important thing culture can affect is one's point of view is their point of view of other people's culture. I believe that one's culture can affect their point of view on other cultures. In the story “An Indian Father's Plea” writing by Robert Lake (Medicine Grizzlybear) there are plenty of examples of…