Culture In Santha Rama Rau's 'By Any Other Name'

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Culture is the behaviors beliefs and characteristics of a particular social ethnic age group. That means you have many different cultures like family culture, friend culture, and interest culture like music culture do you think any of these cultures affect how you view the world? Well, culture affects how we view things entirely because our cultures helps us define our moral senses. For example culture, ‘A’ and culture ‘B’ will clash on their moral senses because culture ‘A’ could believe they are doing something right and culture ‘B’ is doing it the wrong way and visa versa with culture ‘B’ so your moral sense would be affected by the culture. In the text “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau it shows us about how Angulo schools changed …show more content…

For example schools in western culture affects how people learn. They learn how to count differently than the Indians like Wind-Wolf learn how to count they use rocks and sort them for medicine instead of using building blocks to build shapes like said in paragraph ten.In western culture, it's seen as wrong to learn your counting by having to sort for medicine or religious economies but it's seen as wrong to learn how to count for no real reason within the tribe's culture. Both these cultures think they are doing the right thing in teaching kids how to count and the other is wrong that's how the culture affects your moral sense since both cultures feel that they are doing the right thing."Yesterday for the third time in two weeks, he came home crying and said he wanted to have his haircut," that was said in paragraph fourteen. This shows that the Indian culture is different from the western culture about hair with the Indian tribes having long hair is a sign of masculinity and balance and a form of gaining power. However in western culture having long hair you are seen as being ‘feminine’ so it is 'wrong' to have long hair these two cultures views upon hair affect how someone feels about