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Analysis Of Chicken Hips By Catherina Pigott

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In the essay titled ‘Chicken Hips’ by Catherina Pigott, the author explained in detailed how every culture are different from one another when it comes to what they believe to be acceptable or unacceptable. She explained further more, and then compared what it’s considered to be beauty, and healthier in Western World is totally something else in Africa. Author explained to readers how she felt about having cultural assumptions questioned. She says ‘It was the first time I had worn African clothes since my arrival in tiny, dusty Gambia, and evidently they were not impressed. “You’re too thin,” one of them pronounced. “It’s no good.” They nicknamed me “Chicken-hips” (p.1). She felt connected from people in Gambia because where she comes from,
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