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Judith Ortiz Cofer
How do the details Judith Ortiz Cofer includes support her THESIS that latinas are poorly understood and grossly stereotyped?
When she goes to her first formal dance, she gets kissed by a guy who just overeager kisses her painfully but Judith didn't respond. Which made the guy think " i thought you Latin girls were suppose to mature". meaning he thought she was going to attack him with kisses. Another example is, when Judith is about to perform her first poem. But a lady mistakens her for a waittress and asks for a coffee, but later she realizes that Judith isn't a waitress and is embarrassed immediately. Last example is when some Peurto Rican women go to the streeet on Saturday nights and go to the town's plaa to promendage wit their friends infront of the guys they liked. Then the men have to come up with eriotically charged street poems that can be so sexual and outrageous. …show more content…
What is the signifince of the ending?
Judith ends it with Latin women pray "in Spanish to an Anglo god/ with a Jewish hertaigage, and they are "feverntly hoping/that is not omnipotent/ at least he be billingual. Meaning somebody with a different color of skin, prays in their own language to a god we all believe in, with a jewish back ground, hoping that he will at least speak in all langugages. Regardless of their ethnics and where they come from. The meaning is, no matter who we are. We all pray to the same god, but just in different languages, which refers to people coming from a different country and
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