A quilt is a great way to capture the current ethnic and cultural aspects at the time. It is like a picture or a book because it tells a story. Harriet Powers’ “Bible Quilt” is stitched together like a timeline to represent the story of the Bible (658-659). Polly Calistro’s “Around America” quilt illustrates important monumental and historical sites throughout the United States of America (660). The “AIDS Memorial Quilt” is created by numerous people and it is still growing today.
The intriguing texts, “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Palomo Acosta, and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker contain two main ideas that explain how everyone’s culture has a direct influence on the way that we view the world. In other words, each of our backgrounds are full of experiences and knowledge, and we use what we know in every aspect in life. Specifically, Acosta expressed in her poem, “... how the thread darted in and out / galloping along the frayed edges, tucking them in / as you did us at night.” This passage is suggesting when the author remembers her mother mother making quilts, she remembers the memories that she associated with the quilts, making the quilts have a special meaning to her and her culture growing up. Additionally, Walker had a similar idea in her narrative about quilts but she includes another example where she writes,”...
When coming to America, we think we can express ourselves and be accepted for who we are. The world is constantly evolving and even though we are starting to accept cultural differences people still judge because it is not the social
Culture plays a large role on how someone views others and the world. Some things that can affect some one’s perspective are their childhood, past experiences, and their ethnic background. In “An Indian Father’s Plea” by Robert Lake, Wind-Wolf’s father, Medicine Grizzly Bear, explains why his child isn’t a slow learner, and that he is just different from the other children in an educational way. He say’s this because his son has been taught differently than the other children- because of his Indian culture.
Every day we use our culture. Whether it be to argue claims, express opinions, or make decisions, culture plays a part in each area. Culture is who we are, one’s identity, its extent is enormous over our views and actions. A person grows up surrounded with culture at a young age. This can affect how they learn and what they learn.
Daily quilts, pieced wholes without a defined pattern had a direct address to women who were considered as Alien due to their endless fashionable desires. Sculpting, weaving, shaping so as to create multi-colored and short-lived array paramount in leading to the emergence of unsettledness or rather peace and harmony. Such doings or activities saw the need to apply some or the needed survival tactics. Crafted wares, tattered clothes, and patchwork coverlet had the basics to
Culture is the building block for life. It sets society's standards, it sets our own standards, and everything we know is all because of our culture. Culture is a way of thinking, a way of behaving and learning. We express our opinions based upon our beliefs, and define ourselves by what aspects of our culture we choose to show. Culture's impact on someone's perspective of others and the world is greater than its other influencers because it can change how you interact with people, your ability to change, and your opinions of the world.
In “My Mother Pieced Quilts” written by Teresa Palomo Acosta and “Coat of Many Colors,” written by Dolly Parton, There are similarities and differences. Focusing on the speaker’s relationships with their mothers. In Acosta’s poem, she states, whether to put the lilac purple of easter against the / red plaid of winter-going-into-spring / whether to mix a yellow with blue and white and paint / the corpus Christi noon when my father held your hand / whether to shape a five-point star from the / somber black silk you wore to grandmother's funeral. However in the poem, Parton sings, And how my momma put the rags to use / There were rags of many colors / Every piece was small /
For example, one culture might believe that when meeting someone new it is rude to look
Although cultures throughout the world are distinct from one another, along with their own unique customs, there are set moral rules that every culture follows which plays a big role, in order for society to continue forward. Cultures are very different as described by James Rachels in “Morality Is Not Relative”. Cultural Relativism means that there are no set moral codes due to the fact that distinct cultures have distinct ideas when it comes to morals. For example, Rachel's supports his argument, by using multiple ways different people lived. Rachel’s points out a rarely discussed situation about Eskimos practicing infanticide.
Everyone has heard the phrase "love conquers all. " When reading "The Coffin Quilt" by Ann Rinaldi, one would come to the conclusion that this is not true. In this novel, the thought of putting disagreements aside in favor of love is completely overlooked. The most relevant emotion in this story is hatred, and it is this hatred which caused the destruction of the lives of a young girl and her
One example of how culture influences the perspectives of others is in the novel excerpt, “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. On Page 23, Jing Mei’s mom becomes entranced by a young Chinese pianist on The Ed Sullivan Show, and immediately signs up Jing Mei for weekly piano classes. When Jing Mei finds out about these classes, her perspective on
One of the events I attended was the crime victim’s memorial quilt. They started to quilt in 1994 by the probation department's crime victim assistance center. The quilt is a tribute to the national crime victims’ rights week. Every year they add on patches of people that have lost their lives due to violent crimes in Fresno County. This year they added nine new patches to the quilt, which makes the quilt have 490 patches that is dedicated to victims who have lost their lives.
There are so many different types of cultures throughout the world. Everyone has their own styles and their own beliefs and may disagree with other people. In this video I watched, Cultural Differences National Geographic, the video has some black people talking about where they come from compared to the United States. One of the black men says, “In the United States, people are not friendly. You can find someone that's walking in the street by himself, you know, don’t even talk, you know” (fsali89 3:14).
We wake up in the morning, get ready to go to work or school and we leave our house or apartment to be at a place where there are several people. We do not think about people and their races consciously, it is a subconscious thought and this thought could lead to several things. Some individuals can view others as fellow human beings while others view them as less than human or even people who do not deserve to be where they are right now. It might not be the first thought that crosses our minds but it crosses our mind subconsciously. We do not act or behave in a way where we make them feel like they are different from us because doing so seems to be morally wrong.
