Summary Of Pico Iyer's Short Story Where Worlds Collide
Unit 1 Embedded Assessment 2 One’s culture constantly influences the way one views the world and others because even when we don’t notice it ethnocentrism makes us rely on our culture, causing it to have a high influence in how we see our surroundings. The extent is a limited one, yet a constant and frequent one. We regularly question and notice things that others may view differently. That again is due to how ones culture in taught to perceive that certain view. Ethnocentrism will cause a constant influence in how one observes its setting due to cultures being different. In the short narrative Where Worlds Collide by Pico Iyer, the different views people had in the U.S were vivid and showed that the extent really did rely on how the travelers culture was perceived. They explain by showing how the “Land of Opportunity” has an outcome to how the people view the city by saying, “…opportunities are swirling dizzily, promiscuously, around them.” Many different views of ethnicity were shown to portray how the culture may have been affected. The author starts by comparing a luxurious white Lincoln Continental limousine arriving for the red carpet to a “black Chevy Blazer with Mexican stickers all over its windows, being towed.” The two descriptions affect the way one views its surroundings because it gives the
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That affected him as well as his son in the way that the learning style of his son was not “adequate” or “normal” for the school. He then goes by saying, “he is not culturally ‘disadvantaged,’ but he is culturally ‘different’” about his son. The essay shows that Wind Wolf was impacted in how culture around him was different from his. This caused him to want to view his culture differently because as his dad explained “instead of being proud of his race, heritage, and culture, he feels
That affected him as well as his son in the way that the learning style of his son was not “adequate” or “normal” for the school. He then goes by saying, “he is not culturally ‘disadvantaged,’ but he is culturally ‘different’” about his son. The essay shows that Wind Wolf was impacted in how culture around him was different from his. This caused him to want to view his culture differently because as his dad explained “instead of being proud of his race, heritage, and culture, he feels