cultural chaos
... Not only do foreigners have to deal with the language and cultural barrier, but they also have to overcome stereotypes such as racism, segregation and separation. The two biographical essays by Ronald Takaki and Kit Yuen Quan each tell of their personal experiences and hardships of living a multi-cultural life, and how they overcame them. Although they are set in different places and times, their struggles are similar, and thus can be compared and contrasted through a knowledge of cultural diversity. ... He learned of other Asian’s struggles about dealing with the cultural barrier. ... By “voices” we mean their own words and stories as told in their oral histories, conversations, speeches, soliloquies, and songs…(Quan 16) Although these two narrative stories differ in measures, both authors were in a similar situation of racial or cultural turmoil.