Salman Rushdie’s East, West as a Cultural Bridge of East and West

Abstract

Culture is one of the ways to assemble people within the threads of common feelings and ideas. However, it is also culture prevalent in different places that separates people, far apart. Salman Rushdie’s East, West is an anthology of short stories that bring together people of different places and ethics that are distanced by the difference in practice and faith. There are people of East and West who come together in the form of food, habits, clothes, needs, desires and such daily needs. In the process, the present world is fast turning into a global society due to the cultural exchange that is taking place through immigration, business and travel. The cultural bridge is taking place due to the exposition of Eastern mysticism to the West and, Western hegemony is crumbling to the East.