#2 Chick Red 4---replacement D

In my book during this time there is a boy in school  named Abdi who is trying to do his homework but is having a hard time. Abdi had been  assigned to spell words starting with the letter R, abdi being a Somalian he used words from his culture beginning with the letter R. The teacher marked all of his answers wrong and Abdi had no idea why and the teacher did not evaluate his answers.

“What wrong with Somali word?” (Padian 148

This is an example of Americans not explaining things to Somalians and it is causing problems because Abdi is actually correct but the teacher doesn’t recognize Somali words but she didn’t tell him why he had failed the assignment.

In my book The Cooked Seed, Anchee is a single mother who is separated from her husband Qigu. Anchee is seeking to move away from the bad part of Chicago which she feared would negatively impact her child, Lauryann. She moves in with a good friend of hers who is looking to adopt a child from China. They both agree to move to California and raise their children together. At first, Anchee and Margaret flourished with the arrangement and celebrated each other's cultures. Later on, however, their morals started to clash. Anchee is unable to give Lauryann the same luxuries that Margaret can afford for Fooh-Fann, violin lessons, and extravagant birthday parties for example. Lauryann was disdainful of Anchee and saw her as the evil stepmother to her cinderella. To show Lauryann how lucky she was, Anchee found a picture of a child from China who was strapped to a stool with a chamber pot underneath. This led Lauryann to ask Fooh-Fann if she experienced that in China. Margaret was very displeased that Anchee would show something like that and inadvertently make Fooh-Fann relive her life in china. “To an American, the photo was evidence of child abuse. But to Chinese eyes, it was only how things were done in china…To Margaret, I had committed a crime by sharing the image with Fooh-Fann. With tears streaming down her face she cried, ‘It's heartless of you to show her that picture! Don't you think my daughter has suffered enough in China?’”(Min,235). To Anchee the picture isn't child abuse but rather how things are done in China. She understands after living in America for so long why it could be taken otherwise and why Margaret was so upset. Oftentimes in the book, Anchee hasn't had someone to explain why her words or actions could be hurtful in America but not in China. In the first third of the book, she has a very unclear image of the history of slavery in the US and is insensitive to a classmate, its never explained to her why what she said was wrong. Rather than having someone explain differences in culture or misunderstandings to her throughout the memoir, it's mostly up to Anchee to figure it out for herself.

In out of place I have not gotten to a spot where it talks about an American explaining something wrong or incorrectly to the character. But the quote I do have is “Being myself meant not only never being quite right, but also never feeling at ease, always expecting to be interrupted or corrected, to have my privacy invaded and my unsure person set upon.” (Said, 27) In my opinion this shows how Americans might make an Immigrant feel

In my book Said writes, "One of the most difficult things I encountered in the early days of my life in the United States was a language problem that was not just related to my lack of fluency but rather to the slowness, definitional rigor, and efficiency of American English" (Said, 122). This quote illustrates how language barriers can be a significant obstacle for immigrants, leading to misunderstandings, confusion, and frustration, even if they have some fluency in English. Americans may assume that their communication is clear, but the reality is that certain words, phrases, and cultural references may not be familiar or easily understood by immigrants.