Culture shapes people's attitudes and how they look at things. People observe things around them and make a final thought on how they view it. This influences them to speak and act a certain way depending on the situation. Moving from a comfortable environment into a new environment can be very difficult and confusing. Kingston wrote an essay called "Tongue- Tied"; where she writes about her observations and her curiosity while growing up in the Chinese culture and compares it to the English culture. Kingston uses various cultural traditions and saying's that she questioned and apply it onto her everyday life.
When ones observe their surroundings, they learn new things that weren't there before. Kingston is expanding her Chinese culture and the English culture. Kingston’s struggles with reading, writing, and speech. After
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Her parents wanted her to have an opportunity to learn English, this of course was very challenging for her, due to the fact that it was something new and she had to adapt to it. She had a difficult time speaking so she decided to become mute. She also witnessed that the Asian females would be very quiet in the English school, thus made her think that it is cultural that the Asian females were supposed to be quiet. "There were other quiet girls, not of our family but most of them got over it sooner than we did" (238). Soon she realized that she had to speak in order to pass her class. As the Asian females entered their comfort zone in the Asian school, they were loud and talkative along with talking back to teachers. "The girls was not mute. They screamed and yelled in recess..." (239) Change is a wonderful thing as you embrace the aspects of it, this helps improves one's nature and we create culture. You embrace two completely different types of cultures and create your