When cultures meet, seen in "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan and "No Witchcraft for Sale" by Doris Lessing.
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"WHEN CULTURES MEET" The two texts that I'm going to be explore are "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan and "No Witchcraft for Sale" by Doris Lessing. "Two Kinds" is about a mother and daughter and their two different cultures that they have which is set in the USA. This story explores the issue of culture through, the mother and daughter. "No Witchcraft for Sale" is about a black servant and his white employees. This story is set in the 1950 in Africa, and the reason why the issue of culture brought up is because one cultures has power other the other. In "Two Kinds", the idea of cultures is brought into the relationship of the mother and the daughter because they have different backgrounds and different cultural identities. Which are American and Chinese. The mother has strong and complex to the Chinese culture. This can be seen when it says "She had...


