ABSTRACT Globalization seems to have brought a sea change in many post-colonial nations. Cultural hybridity is a positive consequence of globalization. Consequently there is a conflict in the diasporic communities between the majority and minority cultures. It is difficult to be estranged from one’s native culture. A desire to establish an identity in a new culture appears to be desirable and difficult. Bharathi Mukharji focuses on the quest for identity of the diasporic women and shows the varied
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to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee is about Bharati and her sister Mira who have emigrated from Calcutta‚ India to America. They have lived in the United States for about 35 years however they have completely different ideas about immigrant status. Bharati married an American citizen while Mira has a green card and works in pre-school education. Bharati has embraced her new found American identity whole heartedly while Mira prefers to maintain a green card. Mira feels that while she loves
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Firms in the same industry may have very different performances. It is due to their resources andcapabilities. To generate a sustained competitive advantage‚ a company must have internal resources andcapabilities that have specific characteristics as regards as Value‚ Rarity‚ Imitability and Organization.Resources can be financial‚ physical‚ human or organizational. As far as financial resources are concerned‚Harlequin has been in business since 1964‚ so it must have a reliable source of money‚ either
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Getting into the US can in some ways be easy‚ if you have not done anything wrong that is. In Bharati Mukherjee’s “Two Ways to Belong in America”‚ I am introduced to a character Mira‚ who‚ up to a point is either refusing to gain US citizenship or thinks that having a green card‚ work visa‚ and pays taxes is good enough to call herself a citizen of the US. I believe Mira is acting incredibly selfish by not trying or even thinking of gaining US citizenship. I understand she does not want to lose her
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Jacob Holthaus Ancillary Essay 2 Professor Wales Desire and Duty In the world we live in today‚ beliefs and influences are what impact us the most. Some people are born into their beliefs and really have no opportunity to decide for them selves what they want to believe in. Your beliefs and your religious views create your outlook on life and make you live a certain way. The novel Jasmine opens with the phrase‚ "Lifetimes ago...” (Mukherjee‚ 3) in which an astrologer predicts Jasmine ’s
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Vanity Fair‚ an English novel written by William Makepeace Thackeray (United Kingdom: Punch Magazine‚ January 1847 - July 1948)‚ epitomizes the early 19th century of British society of the duplicity of social climbers‚ sabotages‚ avarices‚ lovelessness‚ pretentiousness‚ selfishness. It‚ at the same time‚ captures mix pack of emotion of people who have their origin and counterpart in society as a whole. Furthermore‚ it is a satirical exposé of William’s masterpiece which exposes every chunk of the
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Bharati Mukherjee illustrates an example of adjusting to a standard American culture and its effects on a person’s identity in "Two Ways to Belong in America." {……}Two sisters mira and bharati are from calcutta lived in the united states for about 35 years as they do seem to disagree on the subject of of the status on immigrants .location affects one’s culture because of the people one is surrounded by and educational opportunities . Location is everything . the short story “two way to
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In “American Dreamer” Mukherjee talked about coming to the US and becoming a citizen and how she had to find her own definition of a family culture. This was because she could not go back to live the way she did before her marriage. As an Indian student‚ she had a lot of restrictions imposed on her by her family. The culture she lived in was tightly controlling. There wasn’t a problem of culture and identity in her home: “In Calcutta in the ’50 s I heard no talk of identity crisis-communal or individual”
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up for lost time and a lost opportunity. So‚ on the outside possibility that some editor at Reader’s Digest will read this and then decide to publish it‚ which will then catch the attention of the principal of Mira Costa High School‚ I have decided to give my speech here. (Note: "mira costa" is not Spanish for "mired in costs." The Spanish phrase for "mired in costs" is "graya davisa.")
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Change indicates development. In nature‚ if no species mature‚ life itself ceases. The same concept applies to culture. Cultural stagnation indicates a dying culture‚ but cultural conflict “stirs up the pond”. In Bharati Mukherjee’s American Dreamer‚ Mukherjee analyzes cultural conflict through her experience emigrating from Calcutta to North America. She describes individual and holistic responses and reactions to immigration that she discovers among several levels of society. Just as rose bush
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