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If you are what you eat, then what am I? by Getta Kothari Kothari worries in the essay whether she is her parents daughter. Why is this concern? She belongs to a non-American background. She takes this as a concern, because she wants to be like them. However, she has no similarity with her parents. She holds different food choices as compare to her parents. She wants her lifestyle to be that of American society, unlike the traditional lifestyle. The first time my mother and I open a can of tuna, I am nine years old. We stand in the doorway of the kitchen, in semi-darkness, the can tilted toward daylight. I want to eat what the kids at school eat: bologna, hot dogs, salami-foods my parents find repugnant These lines...