Cultural Indoctrination
American culture is, b
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American culture is, by nature, very difficult to define. People everywhere and especially here in America would like to close their eyes and be able to picture exactly what an American looks like. Since the geographical and cultural settings for various peoples in America make this impossible, we have a tendency to impose this cultural conformation onto other peoples living in areas where this seems more possible. Foreigners often find themselves pressured to either conform to "mainstream Americanism", whatever that is, or to our stereotype of the culture from which they came. Both Marby and Issa are struggling with this difficulty. The chief difference I find between Marby and Issa's works is that the women in Issa's work are keeping hold of their cultural identity, while Marby is losing his. Because the majority of Americans have grown up in a Christian religious context, Islam by nature seems foreign to us. Americans know what they do from literature, mass me
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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