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Traditions and values sometimes change from generation to generation. “Everyday Use,� by Alice Walker is about a girl named Dee who does not like her heritage at first, and does many things to get rid of it or get away from it. She leaves home to look for what she wants and then came back which is a mistake . Walker’s “Everyday Use� illustrates how shame and embarrassment of your culture can lead to a total change of culture, and create differences within families. Mama’s view of cultural heritage is to maintain traditions and the use of the tradition. Dee views of cultural heritage in a more liberal sense, she sees it in a classification mode and sometimes as a disadvantage to a human being in the materialistic world.
Many young people in their youth are ashamed of their culture, and Dee is an example to this. She is ashamed of her culture because of her desire to succeed and overcome poverty, which is not an ideal of her culture at the time. She comes from a......

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