them. Culture substantially informs the way one views the world and others. This is proven true by an assortment of short stories and personal essays‚ in which the authors or their characters express how they can relate to the central idea of having a culture that truly distinguishes them and their actions. The attitudes toward particular cultures plays an important role in someone’s view of the
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In “Two Ways to Belong in America‚” Bharati Mukherjee writes about her struggles self-identifying while being an immigrant in America from Calcutta‚ India‚ accompanied with her sister by her side. Bharati and her sister move to America to attend college and get jobs with their degrees. While both sister agreed to return to India when done‚ they both took different routes. Mira married an Indian man she met in college‚ had her job of a preschool teacher which she loved dearly‚ and stuck to her Indian
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Assessment #2 How does culture make us who we are? Culture constantly instructs the way one views others in the world. People have many different ways of thinking and doing things‚ therefore everyone will not see eye to eye when it comes to explaining how culture constantly instructs the way one views others in the world. Family life and culture influences the way we see things. Like in “Two Ways to Belong in America” Mira is influenced by her family’s Indian culture. Even though she lives in the U
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Two ways of shopping As current society has become increasingly commercialized‚ the ways of shopping has been more varied. Among them‚ there are two major ways of shopping include shopping online and shopping at stores. Such is the case with shopping on EBay and shopping at Wal-Mart. Both EBay and Wal-Mart offer after-sale services for goods and excellent quality of their products. Beyond this similarity‚ the prices of goods and the time of delivery in these two companies are different.
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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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Put simply‚ the Two-Step Flow Theory is about how KEY PEOPLE affect other people. This hypothesis was first introduced by Paul Lazarsfeld‚ Bernard Berelson and Hazel Gaudet in a 1944 study which focused on the process of making decisions around the time of a Presidential election campaign called ‘The People’s Choice’. The expected result was that the mass media’s messages would have a direct influence of people’s votes however the researchers were surprised to find out this was infact not
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Belonging or not belonging is a perception‚ or something that we feel. We are influenced by many factors to feel that we belong or don’t fit in‚ including our knowledge and understanding of the place where we are in the present and how that it is influenced by our prior experiences of other places. Our perception of belonging can also be affected by how much others know and understand of the places we have come from in relation to where we are now. These ideas are explored extensively in Amy Tan’s
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“We can choose to belong or not to belong. The forces that shape all our decisions vary from individual to individual‚ but our context and experiences play a significant role.” Belonging would seem like an expected thing‚ as we belong to many groups in society‚ ranging from groups we are born in to‚ such as family‚ our town‚ our country even‚ and to groups which we choose‚ such as friendship circles‚ sporting clubs and many more. However‚ to belong to something requires a great amount of effort
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There Are Now Two Americas. My Country is a Horror Show1 by David Simon America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society‚ its economy‚ its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one‚ on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America‚ the America that is connected to its own economy‚ where there is a plausible future for the people born into it. About 20 blocks away is another America entirely. It’s astonishing how little we have to do with each
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BSCS 2 students‚ the researchers will use two important theories which will also introduce the main variables of this study. The first theory to be considered is the “Need to Belong” theory (Baumiester & Leary‚ 1995) which asserts that all humans share a common need to be connected with others‚ and common sense signals that individuals’ lives are better for being connected. Furthermore‚ Baumiester & Leary (1995) proposed that the “need to belong” has two aspects: (1) people want a stable and enduring
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