Certainly the fast food has had some influence in most people life; however, it is an honor to recognize the delicious and full of love food made at home. The smell of oatmeal, coffee, and pancakes brings back wonderful childhood memories. In my childhood, my mom used to watch over her family, and she teach them how to eat healthy with complete and balanced nutrition. On the other hand, it was not in my house, but my friends and classmates that changed my way of eating completely. Certainly, my mother did not like the idea of my new way of eating, and the change of my cultural identity. According to “If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?” by Geeta Kothari, Kothari narrates about her cultural identity been shapes by the different types of…show more content… However, Kothari learn to accept American food and the way to eat it, and at the same time keep some of her heritage culture. Geeta Kothari express:
Now I worry that this antipathy toward dal signals something deeper, that somehow I am not my parents’ daughter, not Indian, and because I cannot bear the touch and smell of raw meat, though I can eat it cooked (charred, dry, and overdone), I am not American either. (951)
Today, someone living in a multicultural civilization and respecting the way that many people live is the meaning of living in the border among cultures. However, People usually acquire other cultures making a whole new being of themselves, and the mix of two cultures lead to a change of cultural identity or what it is known as multicultural way of living. In addition, this one will ending up gaining knowledge of the culture he or she is living on and at the same time saving the actual heritage culture, and this will lose some customs and traditions from one culture and another and to just take the most important from both. Geeta Kothari
