If there’s one thing that always makes me think of home is food. However, when you’re in elementary school, the only way for me to eat the way I do at home is by bringing lunch. But wait, there’s more! The kids at school see my lunch and because it is not anywhere near familiar to them, it is automatically seen as gross. Ruth Tam talks about her experience as a kid in Marcelle Hutchins’s article, “Kids Made Fun of my ‘Stinky’ Lunch Which Taught Me a Hard Lesson About Life in America.” Tam’s family is Chinese and she enjoys eating a Cantonese food called, ngau lam, only until “a classmate declared her house ‘Chinese grossness’ because of the flavors and strong smell” (Hutchins). In her interview, she describes throwing away her food when she came to school and eating the food served at her cafeteria instead, in order to fit in (Hutchins). The need to throw away her culture shows that American life is diverse, but not educationally diverse. Kids are given food at school like burgers or chicken nuggets, but it is much different for kids who bring rice and chicken with peanut butter sauce; the difference is not the food itself, its how kids are acting towards their culture. This is similar to Bonnie Thornton Dill’s piece, “Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo,” which she discusses the impact on race through different historical perspectives. One of the groups she focuses on are Chicanos and how their language is looked down on. Living in America makes it difficult for children to remember their roots because “...entry into English-language publics schools introduced the children and their families to systematic efforts to erase their native tongue” (Dill 71). Instead of embracing other cultures, they are blind to the disadvantages many children will have to live on for the rest of their lives. I know I never forget the time that happened to me and I find it surprising that it continues to happen today. Though I am not saying that children should learn every culture’s food, but instead teach them the mannerism when it comes to new things that they learn; children should keep an open mind and be considerate of being different.