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Cultural Influences On Bella's Life

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Commercial life destroys family love and leads us to be materialistic people unconsciously. We have to be carefully which people we surround ourselves with, because by time we might change to people deep inside we don’t want to be, at the end its all illusions. Some people recognize the cultural encounter that affected their lives when it's too late, others like Bella don’t. It’s also a matter of vibes. Difference between being successful, confident and selfishness and ignorant is one step. In this essay we'll be discussing how cultural encounters changed and affected Bella's life, whether in her appearance or family and children. Old Bella the Jamaican, the one that loves her husband cares about her children housewife took a back seat and the new Bella a materialistic one took place. After a long period of time she forgot who she really is and she forgot her morals, ethics, values and she became someone she was criticizing before. After her travel to the states, cultural encounters destroyed her family. She chose the new life over her family. She chose money over family. Civilization over originality lies over truth and material over love. Instead of spreading love in Jamaica, she supported another country with its lifestyle, traditions and manners. Bella was able to positively support her country by spreading the inner love and do all what she was raised to do in her country Jamaica; love can change the whole world. …show more content…

At the end he was deceived and recognized the change that happened to her was due to the cultural encounter. Not just Bella learned a lot, but also Bella's husband learned more and her change made him much stronger, and at the end he was able to forget about her. He saw the contradictions between old Bella and new Bella, and it taught him a

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