Contradictions in cultural identity

In Father, Bomick is an immigrant and influenced by traditional Hindu thought. It can be said that he firmly believes in Hindu beliefs and traditional ideas. Although his wife also grew up in India and was influenced by Hinduism, after immigrating to the United States, she was more willing to accept American culture than Mr. Bomick. For example, Mr. Bhowmick firmly believes that his goddess is always by his side, and even wants to learn carpentry and build a place to live for his goddess; His wife ignored India's inherent caste system and hired a woman with a lower caste. Even if this behavior is despised by neighbors. Although they are the closest couple, their attitudes towards American culture are diametrically opposed.

In fact, for many immigrants, the thoughts and culture of the motherland will inevitably conflict with those of new immigrants, thus creating contradictions. This novel is intended to reveal this ambivalence. Accept a brand-new culture, try to integrate into this different society, or stick to your original belief culture. This article is not only a contradiction between the couple's thoughts and behaviors, but also a contradiction between them and his daughter. As the second generation immigrants, unlike the first generation immigrants, their daughters were educated and edified by the ideology and culture of their home country. Their daughters grew up under the influence of American culture, and what they accepted and showed were the characteristics of new American women: independence, emphasis on freedom and so on. Conflicts arose when she decided not to get married but to have only one child. Father and mother are firmly opposed, because this is unacceptable behavior in their local culture.

In my opinion, conflicts run through the whole article. The contradiction between the life of new immigrants and the life of old ideological communities; The contradiction between the ideology and culture of the motherland and American culture. These are clearly reflected in Mr. Bomick and Mrs. Bomick and their daughters. At the same time, there are two kinds of contradictions in Mrs Bomick. On the one hand, she is completely close to American culture and doesn't consider her own country. On the other hand, she shows extreme opposition to her daughter's idea of artificial insemination and refuses to get married. This is the contradiction between the culture of the mother country and the culture of new immigrants, and the choice and contradiction between the two cultures that exist in the minds of immigrants. Even though Mrs. Bhowmick seemed very willing to accept American culture at first, she also had an indelible belief in the culture of her own country. The title of the article is a father. In the story, the role of the father is stubborn. He sticks to the so-called belief and is unwilling to accept new things from the outside world, which gives the rest of the characters a background to show their thoughts: in their lives, there are many people like their father who unconsciously bind themselves to the thoughts of the motherland and others.

In this short story, the author vividly depicts the images of many characters, and reveals the core and theme of the whole story when the story reaches its climax: there are contradictions between immigrants themselves in accepting and accepting culture, between immigrants and their places, and between the first generation of immigrants and the second generation of immigrants. From the first quiet and gentle to the final confrontation, step by step to the climax to reveal the main idea of the full text. Cultural conflicts have always existed, especially in the United States at that time. The first wave of immigration fever has not passed yet, and the gradual emergence of cultural identity among immigrants is worth pondering.