Damon 1
Logan Damon
Mr. Kugler
English 10 Period 1
26 October 2016
The Choice of Culture
Cultural Identity is a choice. No matter what age someone is or where a person
comes from, when it comes to the basic notion of being an outsider who lives in a
society with a different majority culture, everyone has a choice to accept and assimilate
to the majority culture or to reject it. The choice is one that everyone makes at some
point in their life, even though it may be different for each individual. Robert Lake, Pico
Iyer, Bharati Mukherjee, and S.E Hinton all describe this decision throughout their
