“Orbiting” by Bharati Mukherjee

“Orbiting” by Bharati Mukherjee is the perfect example of a story which brightly shows a cultural conflict and barriers. Written by an Indian author it embodies both views from insight and outsight on cultural differences between American and Asian cultures. In this story cultural barriers prevent the narrator’s family from seeing who this new narrator’s boyfriend really is. The family does not understand and want to accept the differences of another culture.
The narrator Renata is an Italian-American and her boyfriend Ro is Afghani. She invites him and her family for the Thanksgiving dinner. From the very first moment of the Ro’s meeting with Renata’s family the reader sees that the family doesn’t like Ro. For example the mother says:...