Selection influenced by culture, history, environment, or

Culture has been called the “way of life for an entire society”

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Knowing our culture helps us to degrade and contempt differences.

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Literature allows us to revisit the past.

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The writer’s works can be influenced by environment but never by his culture.

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History provides us with a sense of identity. By understanding where we have come from, we can better understand who we are.

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The environment can influence people’s behavior and motivation to act.

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Newspapers contain most of the imaginative literature people can learn from.

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It is important to be a racist towards other culture.

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March of Death by Bienvenido Santos is a poem about the death march in Bataan during the time of Japanese colonization. Bienvenido portrayed sympathy to people who suffered in pain and brutality. This poem shows how life became cruel to those people who suffered.

• environment influence

• culture influence

• history influence

New Yorker in Tondo is about a girl from Tondo named Kikay. She visited New York and returned a very different person. Her new attitude, mannerisms, outfits, and ideas stun her family and friends. This causes emotional unrest between all of them. She convinces her mom, Aling Atang, to change into what looks like a high-society matrona and insists everyone call her mom, Mrs. Mendoza. She enrages her secret fiancé Tony with her “change of heart.” Thus causing Tony to seek an engagement with their other childhood friend, Nena, to the dismay of Totoy, the rowdy kabarakada who has secretly liked Nena ever since.

• environment influence

• culture influence

• history influence