Culture's influence over everyday life
Some people say that the world around us shapes our ideas, but that is not entirely true. This topic has been mulled over through many different views and styles by many authors. Two particular authors, Teresa Palomo Acosta and Santha Rama Rau, agreed on the same view even though they are from different parts of the world. Both Authors touch on subjects that deal with the choices they make, the opinions they had, and the influence of culture over their everyday lives. Culture heavily influences people's everyday lives, from the opinions people have to the choices they make, culture changes the way humans live.
In Teresa Palomo Acosta's poem," My mother's Pieced quilts," she goes on to explain her feelings toward her mother's blankets she creates. In the beginning she states that " they were just ment as covers,"(Acosta 1) like how someone who knew nothing of her culture would see them as. Teresa goes then in depth in what her opinion is of the quilts by describing them as works of art and her mother an artist by calling the floor her mother worked on," the drawing board,"(Acosta and the bankets themselves," a canvas." Because of her different cultured background, Teresa's opinion of the quilts differentiates from the
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Santha And Primila are forced to attend a british run school and are faced with being oppressed by the English teachers. After having their names forcefully changed, the now dubbed Pamela and Cynthia were filled into seprate classrooms. The Sisters struggeled to fit into their surroundings and their feelings of," Duel Personality."(Rau 8) With their cultural identity weighing in the balance, the two make a choice that," changed their lives rather abruptly."(Rau 26) The two's love for their culture influenced their choice to leave the school and possibly changed the rest of their