The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
Both the accounts are shown by two women from socially marginalized sections in two distant cultures of the world. In first part author shows the racism faced by her as a Native American in her school. And in the other part it shows the untouchability faced by the author in India.
They both were following the different cultures. They both showed all the sufferings that they had faced due to their community. Zitkala’s hair was shingled at the behest of Europeans who consider themselves superior to the Native American. But in the other context Bama suffered from untouchability as she was belonged from lower caste. She had seen that lower caste people were not even allowed to touch people who belonged from upper castes.
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