Race and Cultural Differences

Race and cultural differences have been a problem for many years and the problem will continue for many years ahead. Everybody has experienced race differences or cultural differences either in their home country or if people have been travelling to another country and these conflicts are also seen in the prologue to a British novel "Queenie" in which the main character, Queenie, experiences race differences when she just after World War One visits British Empire Exhibition and it is very clear that ones surroundings have a big influence in whether we becomes prejudiced from an early age or not.

The prologue "Queenie" was written by Andrea Levy in 2004 and the prologue is from a British novel. The setting is in Britain were the main character Queenie, her family and two employees, went to the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley and at first it seems like they want a bigger cultural understanding, but at the end it is like they just want to be confirm that Britain is Great Britain. The short story starts in media res and the story is seen from Queenie's perspective witch means it is a 1.person narrator.

Queenie is a little girl from a middleclass family, her father works as a butcher and her mother is a full-time housewife, which is very common for the society after World War One that the father is out working and makes sure there are coming an income and in the meantime he is out working is the woman a stay-home mother who takes care of all the practical. Queenie hasn't got a lot of knowledge of how the world is and she is very curious to find out which is very typical for a little girl. Queenie's father gets convinced to go to the Exhibition by his wife and it is obvious that the mother and father are more old-fashioned then the two employees, because they doesn't have the same knowledge to the how big the British Empire as become and it is shown in the following quotation where Ghaham the employee makes it clear that is makes him proud how big the British Empire has become and Queenie's father doesn't quit understand: