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How Bengali! ‘Hey Ushni, want to eat your favorite fishy?’ No! God, help me. ‘Ushni, how about some rasgullas? You must love them!” I do. And, trust me when I write that being Bengali is not the reason. Throughout my school days, I have been plagued with these incessant questions about my food habits and lifestyle. As if being a teenager wasn’t enough, I have had to deal with the added stereotypes of being a Bengali. It’s actually rather simple. I belong to West Bengal, a state located in…

When Jess started to play soccer as a young girl, her parents didn’t really mind it because they thought Jess would grow out of it when it became time to learn to cook, wear saris, prepare for marriage, and go to university like a good Indian girl should do, but when Jess was asked to join an all- girls soccer club, her parents refused to let her play with them. Jess’s mother believed that no one would “want a daughter-in-law…

Israel Becerra 12/20/17 Period 4 The Bluest eye/ The Color Purple Comparison My Comparison in the bluest eye and the color purple is going to be about pecola and celie having many similaires in their lives .Also that how both are born in black communities and both are humiliated by the society and then the similarities in the book the bluest eye and the movie the color purple. In the beginning they are raped by their fathers and both become…

Everyone has a kind of culture that helps form their views on the world. In many incidents culture is the main cause for the opinions formed to describe how people feel about the world. Although culture may not play a major role in some lives, it does heavily influence many others standpoint on situations. However when a person disregards their culture their viewpoint on the world is most liable to change at any point and time. In the personal essay “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati…

mainly through local franchise partners (Gamble, 2015, Page 78). The major challenge of expansion in Indian markets is found within widely differing cultural preferences (The CAGE Distance Framework): Indian women used to wearing elaborate handcrafted saris may not be keen on more Westernized forms of clothing and accessories. We recommend that Coach would be most successful in their penetration of the Indian market through tailoring items to local preference and establishing strong brand…

As discussed in verse seventy-seven of this verse, the Hindu custom of satī, practiced in the bygone era, entailed the act of self-immolation by a chaste and virtuous wife on her husband’s funeral pyre. Using this custom as a reference point, this verse criticises those who pretend to be true lovers, but in reality, do not harbour true love for the Beloved and fail to be consumed in the fire of love of the Beloved. In Hinduism, the term satī refers to a chaste, virtuous and faithful wife, who…

I am a girl with many dreams. For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to change the world, but the shadows of racial injustice haunted me as I experienced girlhood in America. Born as an Indian girl into a conservative Hindu family in America, my cultural expectations were high. Culture dictates for girls to be traditional, but the average American household was not similar to mine. Not only were these expectations high at home, they were also prevalent at school. My race and…

she could not find help for her African kids. So she had to fight back physically, to protect her young ones that she loved very. Her kids were being attacked and when one of her sons was punched, Gaby threatened the criminal and had him arrested. SARI a (Scholarship and Research Integrity) program at Penn State walked in and brought her family to Bristol. Gaby has still witnessed hatred every day and sometimes she and her family come across racism. The big difference that her family finally…

South Africa Coming from the United States of America is a privilege that we all take for granted on a daily basis. The way that we interact with each other, travel anywhere that we want to go, and do what we want to do is remarkable, considering the fact that there are places on Earth that are not able to have as much freedom to do so. I am going to take you to South Africa to give you an idea of a place that, in some aspects of life are similar to living in America but in other aspects are…

She merged together her Indian heritage with an American background through the different types of clothes she wore. Her new identity in America demonstrated the melting pot process. For example, the traditional Indian clothing for women calls for a sari while Sumita’s husband graciously allowed her to wear “jeans [that came] with a closefitting T-shirt which [outlined] her breasts” (Divakaruni 143). This act allowed her to participate in American culture.…