The article I choose to discuss is "Two Ways to Belong in America" by Bharati Mukherjee. My personal experiences with different cultures and Bharati's relationship with her sister are very similar to mine; however, I have different experiences in the marriage and feelings of belonging. Bharati and I have one obvious similarity: coming from a different culture outside the United States. She was born and grew up in India. She came to the U.S. after she graduated from the University of Calcutta. I grew up in Egypt and came to the U.S. after I graduated from the University of Alexandria. In India, the maim language is English because there are so many languages, and the main custom in clothing is Sarie. In Egypt, the main language is Arabic, and the second language is English. The clothes are very much like here in the U.S. except in the holidays most people like to wear traditional clothes.
             Bharati's observation on the relationship between sisters is similar to my own experiences. She states, "Mira and I have stayed sisterly close by phone. In our regular Sunday morning conversations, we are unguardedly affectionate" (341). This is one of my main weaknesses. I have my sister who lives in Egypt, and I always call her every two weeks. We talk about everything and anything. I like to know what is going on with her life, and she likes to know what is going on with my life. Although my experience in the way I got married is similar to Bharati, which is marrying the American way, my personal experience with marriage is different from the author's. She stayed happily married, maybe because she married a person on the same level of education as her. She said, "I married a fellow student, an American of Canadian parentage" (341). For me, I was not happily married, and I am a single mother now. I think that is because I married a person who is different from me in so many ways. In the beginning, I thought he was the one, but after marriage, the ...