Introducing yourself to a stranger is always scary. By looking at someone, based on their posture, skin tone, and mannerisms, most people believe they know that stranger as if they have been friends for years. This page is about trying new things and trying to understand things in grey rather than black and white.
I'm not a Indian, dreaming to be a doctor and waiting for the day my parents arrange marriage. I'm not soft spoken or oppressed by the men in my life. These stereotypes have never defined me, and my projects revolve around this concept. I am a first generation, Bengali Muslim American, who dreams of becoming a writer and is as hopeless of a romantic as any of you. I am strong willed and I wish the men in my life would try to tell me what to do.
Each of my projects, overall, is a reflection of me and my culture. After each project, not only have I learned something new about myself but I have also learned something about other cultures. I have come to appreciate people in a way that a regular class would never have taught me.
I hope, looking through my projects, you can see things in a new perspective. Perhaps then, slowly but surely, it will be the beginning of less scary introductions, less stereotypes, and more humanity.
I'm not a Indian, dreaming to be a doctor and waiting for the day my parents arrange marriage. I'm not soft spoken or oppressed by the men in my life. These stereotypes have never defined me, and my projects revolve around this concept. I am a first generation, Bengali Muslim American, who dreams of becoming a writer and is as hopeless of a romantic as any of you. I am strong willed and I wish the men in my life would try to tell me what to do.
Each of my projects, overall, is a reflection of me and my culture. After each project, not only have I learned something new about myself but I have also learned something about other cultures. I have come to appreciate people in a way that a regular class would never have taught me.
I hope, looking through my projects, you can see things in a new perspective. Perhaps then, slowly but surely, it will be the beginning of less scary introductions, less stereotypes, and more humanity.
From the first day of school, I knew I wanted to involve my culture into one of my projects. It wasn't until I attended several mini lessons (especially ones in history) that I realized that I could focus on immigration. After all, I am a first generation Bengali- American. That being said, I delved into researching about the different cultural groups of immigrants that came to America.
Children are easily influenced by their surroundings and what people are saying around them. I don't want my children, or anyone's children for the matter, to ever feel as if they are inferior because they are "too dark" and even "too pale."
The Hindi-Bindi Club used food to represent comfort, growth, and nostalgia. Like Water for Chocolate used food in a direct way to show the power of emotion and love. These two books, whether it was directly or indirectly, used recipes and food to help progress the novel and help readers really connect with the characters in a different level.
