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ItemCultural Isolation as Depicted in Anita Desai's Bye-Bye Blackbird( 2015) Ramnath SrinathAnita Desai’s Bye-Bye Blackbird,published in 1971, is a story mainly concerned with cross cultural human relationships. Dev and Aditand Sarah the British wife of Aditare the three major characters representing two sections of life. Adit, has ankinship to the western ways of life, especially, England, while Dev living in England, shows his revulsion towards the ways of European life and particularly of England. Sarah, Adit’sEnglish wife, even though Western and first world by birth, is portrayed by Desai as being weak, meek and docile.Adit, loves and longs to live in England but Dev loves India, while Sarah is caught in-between her natural self and her willing adoption of the foreign ways of life. The title of the novel refers to Adit’s final farewell to Asian immigrants in England when he leaves England to India for good. Since their background is rooted in the class society, which still exists in India and Hinduism in particular, there is an intense struggle; cultural conflict, isolation, immigration, exile etc. are common in twentieth century literature. Anita Desai has vividly depicted the predicament of expats and their life in a foreign country.
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ItemA qualitative look into the lives and aspirations of street children in Ho Chi Minh CityThe following paper presents a phenomenological view of Street children’s future aspirations in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (HCMC) in 2018. Information was collected addressing general background data, their experiences of living on the street, and the reasons for and how they came to be living on the streets. The subjects studied comprised 3 male and 3 female street children living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Phenomenological interviews were generated using a variety of quantifiable data techniques. They included: in-depth interviews of participants (street children), in-depth interviews of adult individuals in the children’s lives, questionnaires, and observation. The results of the study show a correlation between poverty, broken homes, abuse, limited schooling, and at times, human trafficking. Participants often displayed avoidance or aggression when confronted with uncomfortable or taboo topics. Possible symptoms relating to mental disorders displayed were: depression, generalized anxiety, attachment disorders, aggression, criminality, frustration and hopelessness. The children were drawn to foreigners as a means to earn money, either through sales of trinkets or through scams or begging. As such, the participants generally displayed exaggerated friendliness, superficial connections, and forward mannerisms with adult speaking patterns. All the children had aspirations and perhaps unrealistic goals for the future.