It it is clear when reading "An Indian Father’s Plea", "By any other name" and "Legal Alien" to see how it's complicated for …show more content…
His father replies to his son’s teacher that “He is not culturally “disadvantaged,” but he is culturally “different”.” this show’s everything we need, the fact that he comes from another culture and doesn’t know our ways of life, is not because he is a “slow learner”, it’s because all of his life he has lived by a different set of rules, traditions, experiences, that make him see the world in a “different” way and trying to become part of our culture will obviously take a lot of time and dedication.
In “By any other name” the little girl's experience something very similar to the past story, as their principal wants to change their names in the first day of school without even trying to pronounce them. But they don't go through as much conflict as the other kid. They are just culturally different and therefore have different ways of being, doing things, in this case food where they say “Premila and I were the only ones to have Indian food”, in a school where everyone has sandwiches for lunch, going with indian food might seem “weird” for their