'Multi-Cultural America'

'Because of its multi-cultural properties, the States is commonly regarded as a warming pot in which all told purifications preempt live freely. An American story is characterized by differences in finishing and enhanced by surveys from foreigners living in America. Two stories back up the notion that an American story is characterized by differences in culture are in If You be What You Eat, because What Am I? and Tonys Story. Geeta Kotharis narrative If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I? is write through the perspective of an outsider immersed into a new culture, and revolves well-nigh Kotharis emotional state as an Indian emigre living in a possessive American culture. utilize the language of her maturation taste buds, Kothari reflects upon fundamental moments in her life with the complex kindred she has with food. The first paragraph reveals that Kothari urgently wants to be part of the American culture, emphasized in her want to course what the kids at trai l eat: bologna, heated dogs, salami (91).\nA tunny salad dish withal acts as a symbol for Kotharis ravish in her and her mothers ignorance of American food, thus in their ignorance of American culture. The certify paragraph reveals that Kothari is no longer an outsider in that she associates natural American toss foods such as fried chicken, glassy doughnuts, and French heat up with ketchup with feelings of home, nostalgia, and comfort. This paragraph also shows that Kotharis lore of herself as a non-foreigner could perhaps be an illusion, as she legato is different from close to Americans in that her friends all have houses. A few paragraphs later, Kothari is an crowing who regrets suppressing her homegrown culture. Kotharis repulsion of her American boyfriend stems from the incident he eats the meats Kothari had once desperately wanted as a child. She associates the olfactory perception of meat with her then(prenominal) desire to conk out in with American cultur e, and begins to worry that she leave behind forget the grand tastes of her cultu... '