By Any Other Name, By Santha Rama Rau, Pat Mora

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Culture is something we all have, it runs between countries and people. People have different ideas and beliefs. This, however, causes people to view others as “inferior” or not as well off or as good as them. The ideas of people differs from others. Culture always affects the way people view the world. These authors and artist, Santha Rama Rau, Pat Mora, and finally the artist Frida Kahlo show how this is in different stories and paintings of theirs.
“By Any Other Name”, by Santha Rama Rau, tells a story of how a culture is taken over by another, and is forced to change. The story talks about two young Indian girls who are sent to an Anglo-Indian School (which was a boarding school run by British Administrators). They don’t realize that

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