Something that has always fascinated me is the comparison with a completely different culture. You don't have to travel far to realize that people lead truly different lives in other countries and that the saying "home sweet home" often applies to most of us. What if we suddenly had to leave our homes and settle elsewhere, where other values ​​and beliefs were common and where people spoke a different language? Will we still try to hold on to the “old home” by speaking our native language, practicing our religion and culture, or will we give in to the exciting new country and forget our past? And what would that look like for our children, and their children? In Identity Lessons - Contemporary Writing on Learning to Be an American I found many different stories that told us what it's like to be "trapped" between two cultures. In this short essay I aim to demonstrate that belonging to two cultures can create a lot of confusion. In Tiffany Midge's 'Beets' we meet a family of four, where the mother is Indian and the father is white. The eldest daughter learns about the Plains Indians and their culture at school, but the "truth" she is told is different than what her father wants to prove. Such mixed messages are also what the speaker in the film "The Boy Without a Flag" by Abraham Rodriguez Jr. receives. He refuses to salute the American flag, because his father keeps talking about all the bad things America has done to the their home, Puerto Rico, and therefore believes he has done what is expected of him, but his father becomes angry with him for jeopardizing his education and his future. The boy has the feeling that his father collaborated with the enemy and does not understand how this could have happened. It took him until he grew up to understand that his father only wanted the best for him. In "Made You Mine, America" ​​Ali Zarrin describes coming to the United States as a teenager to study and find a better future. It was a struggle for him to cope with the differences from his home country in the Middle East: America was supposed to be the country of dreams and possibilities, but he had to realize that so were the poor and homeless..