1. “Why Don’t We Complain” Question 2 Employing simple anecdotes‚ William F. Buckley argues in his essay “Why Don’t We Complain”‚ that as people continue to ignore rudimentary issues‚ their passivity is transferring into political indifference. Buckley begins with a simple story of how “train temperatures in the dead of the winter… climb up to 85 degrees without complaint” and how “For generations‚ Americans who were too hot‚ or too cold‚ got up and did something about it”. Although there were many
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to communicate with the diverse people surrounding them. Smith explains this dynamic by saying‚ “You have no choice but to cross borders and speak in tongues (Smith p. 6)‚” and then again by explaining‚ “The voice… finds itself trapped between two poles‚ two competing belief systems (Smith p. 14).” Not only is nurture refusing to yield to nature’s expectation of a unified voice‚ but also nurture creates additional voices for individuals who need to have mastery over more than one voice to adequately
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a’s character goes under several changes as she tries to identify herself in a world of two different cultures in Bharati Mukherjee’s “The Tenant”. When you come across Maya’s character in the beginning of the story it seems that she does not really know what she wants. Maya‚ who has become an American citizen‚ has adapted the western culture in which she is trying to fit in and find herself within while trying to abandon her Indian culture which is a big part of her. She moves from one place
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CROSS CULTURE & IDENTITY CRISIS IN BHARATHI MUKHERJEE’S JASMINE ABSTRACT Bharati Mukherjee in her novel Jasmine 1989 longs to speak in her own voice and give a personal version of what it means to be an emigrant especially a female immigrant. Her struggle to identify herself with the new host country enables her to write from a wider and more exciting angle. She writes how the female protagonist tries to tackle the problem of loss of culture and endeavors to assume a new identity in America
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of restrictions and superstitions. Maya is married to Gautama‚ a man of academic pursuits and contrary to her romantic and fanciful nature‚ it was almost a marriage of contradictory temperament hand-picked by her parents . Now Maya becomes victim of two fold conflicts ‚ social and matrimonial on the one hand and on the other internal conflict rooted in the child- hood memory and fantasy over shadowed with the prophesy of an albino astrologer regarding the death of the either of the partners four years
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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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change their point of views. But culture still had that influence in the person in how they view the world. In the personal essay “Two ways to belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee‚ she talks about the life of her and her sister Mira. They moved from India to America to study in college. In the essay it’s pretty clear that Mira sticks with her Indian identity while Bharati identifies more to American and develops an American identity. These identities influence their feelings toward America. Mira never
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In the article "Two Ways to Belong in America‚" author Bharati Mukherjee writes about the experiences and the common struggles that immigrants face in the new environment. She writes the article in hopes to tell the general public of her experiences and struggles that she and her sister faced in the timeline that she publishes this piece. As new immigration laws are being passed in Congress‚ Mukherjee wants to tell her story and her sister’s to be able to communicate the life before these laws and
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"Lifetimes ago...” (Mukherjee‚ 3) in which an astrologer predicts Jasmine ’s widowhood and exile‚ frames the discussion of whether fate or free will dictate her life’s trajectory. This relates very closely to the theme of desire and duty. Due to Jasmines religious and cultural orientation‚ she has been programmed to believe in predestination. Her desire to become reborn into something free willed and American will contradict everything that was ever influenced to Mukherjee. In the novel she acquires
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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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