Becoming Independent in America

Being a third generation Japanese American, Mirikitani is quick to recognize the difficulties that accompany any attempt in cultural assimilation in her poem, "breaking Tradition" but perhaps even more significant is Mirikatini ability to step outside of the uncertainty of cultural assimilation and look with sincere eyes opon the non cultural assimilation of child daughter to women. Throughout he poem, the process of becoming a women is parallel with the process of addapting to a new culture. An attempt to becoming a women and to be...