Self Portrait On The Borderline Between Mexico And The United States

It can define you, change you, make your views and can make you, you. Culture really is who you and what makes you whether it comes from parents, ethnicity, or environment it usually it can have some sort of impact on who you are. Since every person is different that would have to mean that everyone’s culture extends differently. In all circumstances a person's culture extends and influences the way they view others and the world. In order to understand how culture extends you must understand that everyone has grown up differently, with different parents. Parents of course have a role and impact who you are as they're the ones who raised you and taught you certain characteristics and manners that you still present in yourself today. As well

Good or bad it's just something that's a part of you and is pretty hard to shake off as it made see morally correct to believe that way. For example Frida Kahlo is an extraordinary woman and artist has also inherited views because of where she's from. In her painting self portrait on the borderline between Mexico and the United States you can see this both cultures intertwining and how she was homesick wanted to return where she came from. Like literature, art is it’s own medium to communicate something to the audience, the art is waiting for the audience to listen and from her painting it represents to me her culture because the painting shows where she comes from and how when she moved how these views have intertwined showing how much her culture already extends and now with the contrasting views from another country how they are beginning to contrast and combine. Also and her biography “ Frida Kahlo” written by Hayden Herrera it states,”She transmits her pain into art with remarkable frankness tempered by humor and fantasy” (34). This also says her her culture and her personality has affected her artwork. As you can see from Frida Kahlo ethnicity also plays a role into your life if it's been incorporated into your life in the first place because those views are harder to shake off as those are instilled in you. As well as your ethnicity and your parents having a certain extent and

For example end the essay “An Indian father's Plea” by Robert Lake(Medicine Grizzly bear) it discusses an Indian father's plea for his son because from the school his son is deemed as a slow learner but to his father he's seen as one of the smartest in the tribe as the boy has learned more from his family making it harder to absorb things that is in a different teaching style that was given by the school. So the father pleads to school to work together to teach his son the necessities that a public school needs to teach him in a way that will work for his son, Wind-Wolf. The way his tribe teaches differs than the way of schools so the father argues this,”So I realize he made me slow and grasping the methods and tools that you are now using in your classroom, once quite familiar to his white peers, but I hope you'll be patient with him. It takes time to adjust to a new cultural system and learn new things” (91). His father also described his son as not being culturally “disadvantaged” but that he is culturally “different” (91). The father explain to the school that his son is not an empty class or basket coming into class but that he is already filled. For windwolf specifically his views may also contrast between his father and his tribe to western society in these different views that were given to him by his environment also extend into how he views the