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Cultural Identity
Title:  My missing country
Author: Silvia Pera
Link:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/my-missing-country_b_2591112.html

Analysis: In this article, the author talks about how she doesn't understand who she is, an American or an Italian. Having lived all her life in America she doesn't feel like she is Italian, but she does not consider herself an American either. Her parents are Italian and she sometimes flies to Italy. The author also understands that she has forgotten her heritage and her culture.

Relation to "The Buddha in the Attic":
This article/blog relates to the story because the girl in this blog wasn't sure about her nationality. She didn't consider herself an American and she didn't consider herself an Italian either. "The Buddha in the Attic" children were not American and they were not Japanese either. They started forgetting their Japanese heritage and culture and the American children didn't accept them the way they were. Even though they spoke English , American children didn't care. So they were stuck in the middle. Not American and not Japanese, like the author of the article.

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Cultural Estrangement:
Title: A Breakdown of Family Estrangement:

Author: Susan Adcox

Link: https://www.verywellfamily.com/breakdown-of-family-estrangement-1695444

Analysis of Article: In this article it talks about how some family members lose contact with only family members such as parents with their children or children with their parents.

Relates to "The Budda in the Attic":  This article relates to this story we read in class because it talks about how some people in a family are feeling culturally estranged and are drifting apart from each other.

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Cultural Shame
Title: The Shame Culture
Author: David Brooks
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/opinion/the-shame-culture.html

Analysis: In the article, the author is talking about how the cultural shame changed over time. It all started with the American colonists, when they "opened" a new land and forgot about their roots and where they came from.

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Cultural Identity:
Title:

Globalization and its Effect on Cultural Diversity

http://etec.ctlt.ubc.ca/510wiki/Globalization_and_its_Effect_on_Cultural_Diversity

Analysis:
This article shows us a barrier between each country and how you identity can change your perspective on each and every country for example the Japanese coming to america and having this totally different perspective on the american people.

Relation to Buddha in the attic:
This article relates to Buddha in the attic because it shows us exactly how perspective can affect the way a person sees things in different countries. We can see how this has affected a lot of the different

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The children's dreams were to become more Americanized and throughout the story "they pronounced their l's and r's with ease.  And even when we sent them to the Buddhist church on Saturdays to study Japanese they did not learn a thing. - But whenever we heard them talking out loud in their sleep the words that came out of their mouths came out--we were sure of it--in Japanese" (Otsuka 73). This quote speaks to how the children's dreams were to be a part of the American world and remove themselves from their Japanese heritage and culture.  They speak English in front of everyone and show lack of effort when it comes to their Japanese language.  They seem to want to adapt to the United States and leave the other part of themselves behind.  But, when they are sleeping, it is shown that they are speaking their Japanese language and are still connected to that part of themselves.  We think the author is trying to tell us that the kids who come to America are slowly Americanized as they grow, which is causing a gap between them and their roots of being Japanese people.

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4. How might the mothers dreams relate to the idea of cultural estrangement?

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4. How might the mothers dreams relate to the idea of cultural estrangement?

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First, the mothers dreams were to move to the United States to seek a better life and remove themselves from the difficult living situations in Japan. They married men who embellished the truth.  This did not end well for them because they had to work all the time and got no breaks.  No time to feel a connection to their Japanese side of themselves or their culture.  Their culture was stripped away by moving to the United States and marrying their husbands.  Even their children adapted to this life and "insisted on eating bacon and eggs every morning for breakfast instead of bean-paste soup.  They refused to use chopsticks" (Otsuka 75).  This speaks to how her children are now culturally estranged from their culture. The mothers feel sad because of how their children are not respecting their roots and have moved on to the American ways. They have distanced themselves and this cultural estrangement has affected and changed them as people.

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3. What is significant about how the mothers interpret their children's dreams, and what does this suggest about the mothers?

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3. What is significant about how the mothers interpret their children's dreams, and what does this suggest about the mothers?

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The mothers do not like how their children are distancing themselves from their Japanese heritage.  It has changed them and "they forgot the names of the flowers in Japanese.  They forgot the names of the colors" (Otsuka 72). It is significant because moving to the United States did not enhance them more to their culture.  It drove them away and pushed them further towards American culture. This suggests about the mothers that they still have faith and believe that their children will come back to the Japanese sides of themselves.

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2. Why do the mothers let them keep dreaming?

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2. Why do the mothers let them keep dreaming?

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I think that the mothers let the children keep dreaming so they can have a faith in their future. Their mothers didn't see any other way to make their children successful as to make them Americans . Despite that it was difficult to actualize their dreams, the children were encouraged to articulate them.  Their mothers knew that "the darkness was coming" (Otsuka 79) but they didn't say anything and let their children have those childish goals so maybe one day they can archive them and become successful.

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1. How do the children´s dreams compare to the dreams of their mothers?

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1. How do the children´s dreams compare to the dreams of their mothers?

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The mother's dreams were to meet a husband who is attractive and financially secure.  The Children's dream is that they grow to become rich and develop themselves into the American culture and have their dream jobs.They even became "ashamed of their origins" (Otsuka 75) and then of their mothers. ¨One wanted to go to college even though she knew had ever left the town. I know its crazy, but... One loved living out in the country .....¨(Otsuka 78) This quote shows us how the kids dream is to become whatever they want. Their perspective is based on their future and specific things, compared to their mothers who dreamed of immediately being settled with having a prepared life ahead of them in America.