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Cofer tell her thought about stereotypes of Hispanic women can have bad effects base on what occurred in her life. Base on the Hispanic cultrural influence, In Hispanci family they want their daughters to dress more like women, but in Americas culture those clothes is really mature for their young age. Cofer use the story of how hard to chose dress in her career day and what happened in that day to explain to us that culture clash really make
Latino girls feel awkward and biring to them some negtive effects. Cofer use the story of herself being mistaken for waitress due to her hispanic heritage to illustrate the prejudce people have towards hispanic people. Cofer is a professional writer. But an older woman thought she is a waitress and order a cup of coffee from her just because she is a Latino women. That’s make her feel really sad. She feels that no matter how she becames and how hard she worked. The world will still see her as an Latino Women.
Sometimes stereotypes sames like nothing to some people, but to others, they can be really hurtful. Cofer tell us that her life is not bad as other Latino women, Because she has a really good family to support her and give her chance to be educated. The books and knowledge saved her life. But not too many Latino women in the society can have good chance like her. People using different eyes to see them and didn’t give them chance to do what they want to do. The society give them really big pressure make Latino women feel they are really small and low level in the society.
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1 Your personal goal is try to replave the old pervasive stereotypes and myths about Latinas withna much more interesting set of realities. Do you think during this process it will lose the original

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