Honoring Culture

Law 598b is discrimination against those whose culture looks highly of eating America’s so called “pets.” That is the point made by Michael Kingston in the short essay “Creating a Criminal” making Kingston a “do-gooder” toward those who agree with him. This law is poorly written on the writer’s part, and it would be sufficient to probably rewrite it. Unfortunately for Kingston, there are some small glitches in the way he has written his essay too. He uses unfair generalization toward other cultures, mainly because he only mentions the Vietnamese within his essay. 598b was written to help educate those new to the country on one aspect of our American culture.
The law states that no person within California may raise a “traditional pet or companion” (Kingston, 129) for the intention of eating it. Kingston questions the meaning of “pet,” and what is traditional to one culture may not be traditional to another. He goes on to say that Vietnamese Americans...