Assignment

Please write a 3-5 page essay answering the following prompt:

"Many scholars have argued that globalization has made it more necessary than ever to recognize the fluidity and hybridity of cultural identity. According to Tomlinson and Appadurai, what new circumstances affect how identities develop? How do Ang and Anzaldua define their new concepts of identity? How does the literary work of Achebe and Lahiri illustrate that identity is a negotiation? In your opinion, what is most useful and what is most challenging about the concepts of identity presented by these authors?"