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Culture Shock

The way two storms clash together to create a monster more powerful than either, so is the way with culture. Two cultures can never come together without some type of conflict. In Tom Whitecloud's story "Blue Winds Dancing," he tells of the internal struggles of a young Indian on his way home from the city. "Blue Winds Dancing" is a story of about the clash of advanced and Native American cultures. An advanced culture will always be in conflict with a less advanced one because each culture has specific ways and beliefs. The more advanced culture will try to swallow up the less advanced, and each culture believes that it is better off than the other.
Each culture has specific ways and beliefs that inevitably conflict with the other. In a more advanced culture there is an anxiety about each person's place in society (144). There is no way to put one culture into another without a sense of shock and yearning for home. This is the case in "Blue Winds Dancing," the......

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