American Masala By Kantrowitz And Scelfo
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American Masala By Kantrowitz And Scelfo
...in this nation have been numerous and priceless. However, we do not often hear of many of the achievements as the media normally seems to ignore them in favor of other cultures who perhaps fight for more attention than do the Asian Americans. For the most part, the society often looks right past them for they are generally considered a quite and reclusive people. In a recent Newsweek article, from March 2004, Barbara Kantrowitz and Julie Scelfo write about the American Masala. The following paper summarizes and analyzes this article
American Masala
The authors begin with, They've changed the way we eat, dress, work and play. South Asians come here from many places, and they succeed by blending East and West (Kantrowitz; Scelfo, 2004; 50). From this point the authors begin focusing on different individuals, individuals who are very intriguing and perhaps very subtly influentially representative of the contributions made by Asian Americans.
The first individual is Madhur Jaffrey, a woman whom the authors use to introduce us to the world of the...
