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[edit] Unit Two Paper

Thomas Wilson Eng112 Sec 71 4/19/07

A New Recipe (Third Draft)

Ideas:

• If a person’s identity is largely formed by the cultures he/she experiences, then what is the main culture that affects Kothari?

1. If she grew up in an Indian setting would she be a completely different person than she is today, or would the fact that her conscious mind doesn’t change from world to world keep her the same way but with different experiences?

2. If she had grown up in a foster home without zero Indian heritage impulses, would she still have a taste and a stomach for American food or would she still crave Indian food because it’s a part of her generic?

• Would Einstein have produced the same theories (granted they weren’t found by anyone else yet) in today’s society? Would Noah still be able to build that ark? Would Joan of Arc still have let herself get martyred if she knew up the capabilities of today’s religions? Would George Bush have made a better President back in the nineteenth century?

1. These questions could help determine whether or not the claim [that one’s experienced culture, generic or not, forms one’s identity] about Kothari is true.

2. Is this just a trivial statement or does it really have cultural and identifiable significance the world around us?

• Disregarding the debate, which took over Kothari’s life more? Is she really more like her parent’s daughter because she is curious and interested in learning how to make moong dal or is she really at heart an American, with an Anglicized husband and primarily English school/peer experiences?

1. Exactly what part of her identity proves which side?

2. Is British a subset of a category that could define her personality?

• Is her personality unlike that of anybody else’s, culturally? Has her experience via culture clash and parents formed her into a definitive type of person (as Americans are American and Indians are Indian), or is she something completely different? Does she need her own category, of sorts, or is she a different recipe?