Culture: Worlds and Societies You’re walking through the airport and realize there are people there from every culture. You take in the colors, shapes and start to question your own cultural background. Culture constantly informs the way someone views the world and others. In my opinion culture is an essential part that forms the characters we are. From personalities, practices and stories culture gets manifested in many ways.
People say that morals can only be established in the household and not taught. This is very true and applies to everyone. Morals and values are significant to culture. In the essay “An Indian Father’s Plead” author Robert Lake explains how his tribe blessed Wind-Wolf (character) since birth. Lake also explains how the Great Spirits would protect Wind-Wolf. Although Wind-Wolf
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In the poem about My Mother Pieced Quilts the author Teresa Palomo Acosta delicately unfolds a story of her life. When he author's word choice is taken in consideration you realize the importance of her poem. In it she pieces together details like her mother's death and illnesses. Teresa also talks about how important the quilts are in winter. She refers to them as weapons, and speaks about the families warmth. Teresa describes how she helped pull her family together after sad past s. memories.
In the short excerpt from the novel Two Kinds, the character doesn’t seem to be following her Mother’s cultural beliefs. Although this may seem like she isn’t being molded or affected she is in some way. Her, not liking to play the piano was because of her Mother. The character is still being affected even in her adulthood. Even though it may not seem like she has a culture, since she doesn’t want to follow her’s, she does have an American culture. Author Amy Tan describes the emotional stress the character was in. So yes, the character is still being affected even if her Chinese-standard-culture isn’t being