Where Worlds Collide
People’s cultural view
When looking at a different part of the world people think that it is weird. Well that is all culture are different and special. In “Where Worlds Collide”, Frida: a biography, and Two Kinds, the passages show that people’s culture affect the way they view the world and their cultures.
In Pico Iyer’s passage “Where Worlds Collide,” he talked about people that their culture and how it affected their view on the world. “They see Koreans piling into the Taeguk Airport Shuttle and the Seoul Shuttle, which will take them to Koreatown without their ever feeling they’ve left home.” (Iyer 64) In this quote the Koreans avoided going to the city. This is because the Korean people went to what they were comfortable with and didn’t want to feel like they were in a different place. “they see newcomers from the Middle East disappearing under the Arabic script of the Sahara Shuttle.” In this quote, they prove that they have a shuttle for every culture knowing that they would go to what they know.
In Frida: a biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera is about a paint who is loyal to her culture. She likes to wear traditional dresses and prefers to live in Mexico instead of living in in America. “The artist, dressed in her …show more content…
favorite Mexican costume, was carried on a hospital stretcher to her four-poster bed, which had been installed in the gallery that afternoon.” This quote shows that she likes her culture and that she sticks with her tradition.
Finally, Two Kinds a short story by Amy Tan.
Is about a mother and her daughter having different views on culture because Jing-mei wanted to an American actress just like Shirley Temple. Jing-mei was born in America but was Chinese and her mother wanted her to be a prodigy. “The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple. She was proudly modest, like a proper Chinese Child. This what her mother wanted Jing-mei to be. But although Jing-mei doesn’t care about her Chinese culture. “Only two kinds of daughters,” she shouted in Chinese. “Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!” This show that Jing-mei’s view on culture is different than her
mother’s.
Lots of stories show evidence about culture being important to the world. In “Where Worlds Collide” and “Frida: Biography,” the characters’ understand that the world is affected by their culture because they are not the same. People’s view on culture does not mean we should not get along.
When looking at a different part of the world people think that it is weird. Well that is all culture are different and special. In “Where Worlds Collide”, Frida: a biography, and Two Kinds, the passages show that people’s culture affect the way they view the world and their cultures.
In Pico Iyer’s passage “Where Worlds Collide,” he talked about people that their culture and how it affected their view on the world. “They see Koreans piling into the Taeguk Airport Shuttle and the Seoul Shuttle, which will take them to Koreatown without their ever feeling they’ve left home.” (Iyer 64) In this quote the Koreans avoided going to the city. This is because the Korean people went to what they were comfortable with and didn’t want to feel like they were in a different place. “they see newcomers from the Middle East disappearing under the Arabic script of the Sahara Shuttle.” In this quote, they prove that they have a shuttle for every culture knowing that they would go to what they know.
In Frida: a biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera is about a paint who is loyal to her culture. She likes to wear traditional dresses and prefers to live in Mexico instead of living in in America. “The artist, dressed in her …show more content…
favorite Mexican costume, was carried on a hospital stretcher to her four-poster bed, which had been installed in the gallery that afternoon.” This quote shows that she likes her culture and that she sticks with her tradition.
Finally, Two Kinds a short story by Amy Tan.
Is about a mother and her daughter having different views on culture because Jing-mei wanted to an American actress just like Shirley Temple. Jing-mei was born in America but was Chinese and her mother wanted her to be a prodigy. “The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple. She was proudly modest, like a proper Chinese Child. This what her mother wanted Jing-mei to be. But although Jing-mei doesn’t care about her Chinese culture. “Only two kinds of daughters,” she shouted in Chinese. “Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!” This show that Jing-mei’s view on culture is different than her
mother’s.
Lots of stories show evidence about culture being important to the world. In “Where Worlds Collide” and “Frida: Biography,” the characters’ understand that the world is affected by their culture because they are not the same. People’s view on culture does not mean we should not get along.