An excellent book for multicultural classrooms

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	• How My Parents Learned to Eat (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books) Ina R. Friedman Houghton Mifflin, 1987 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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An excellent book for multicultural classrooms

"How My Parents Learned To Eat" presents Japanese and American cultures in a story. The readers read about the cultural values through a little girl's first person narrative. From her telling, the readers will understand Japanese customs in its cultural context, such as bowing for greeting and drinking soup from the bowl. These concepts may be foreign or even funny to Americans who are unfamiliar Japanese culture. The author, however, successfully weave elements from both Ameriacn and Japanese cultures into the story. The respect for both Japanese and American cultures is also evident in the book. Not only did the mother (Japanese) want to learn the Western way of eating, but the father (American) is also willingly to learn the Japanese way of eating. So, in the end of the story, the little girl says again, "That's why at our house some days we eat with chopsticks and some days we eat with knives and forks" (p. 32).

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West meets West

This is story not only touches on how Westerners use silverware not chopsticks, but also on how even Britains eat differently from Americans with the same silverware. This is a perfect social studies book for teachers in elementary school.

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