the struggles Mexicans faced in obtaining equal rights in his book‚ A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. According to Takaki‚ the American people and government affected Mexican lifestyles through encroachment on their rights‚ starting just before the Mexican-American War. Takaki posits that “political restrictions” made it difficult for Mexicans to secure their “rights as citizens” and maintain their “rights as landowners” (167). Takaki explains that Mexicans encountered monumental
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Linguistics‚ though one of the youngest behavioral sciences‚ has a background extending over several millennia. During this period scholars with various interests have concerned themselves with language. Some of the most readable treatises on language were produced by the Greeks and Romans‚ such as Plato’s Cratylus and Quintilian’s advice to an orator. Much of our terminology was devised in the course of this earlier concern. Any of introductions to linguistic cannot‚ therefore‚ limit itself to one
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PAPER 6 (DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS) Discuss synchronic and diachronic approaches to language. In opposition to the totally historical view of language of the previous hundred years‚ Ferdinand de Saussure emphasized the importance of seeing from two distinct and largely exclusive points of view‚ which he called "synchronic" and "diachronic". The word "chronic" has been derived from Greek word "chronos" which means time. Synchronic linguistics sees language as a living whole‚ existing as a state
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Questions: 1. Taking your information from Katherine Benton-Cohen’s book‚ Borderline Americans‚ write an essay on how the term “American” became synonymous with “white” in Cochise County during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Start by discussing the nature of relations between Mexicans and whites in the different sections of the county during the 19th century. How did relations change over time and what factors led to those changes? In answering these questions‚ you
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10/06/13 Americanization Is Tough on “Macho” There are different countries and cultures in the world. Sometimes when Americans view other cultures’ values the actual truth becomes distorted. In her article “Americanization is tough on the Macho‚” Rose Del Castillo Guilbault examines the concept of macho from both the Hispanics and Americans perspective. The Hispanic view of macho embodies a man described by Guilbault as manly‚ responsible‚ hardworking‚ a patriarch and a person
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like Mexican-Americans successfully act Mexican-American in front of a police officer to convince and assure him that they indeed are "natives." Of concern to both Lowe and Oboler is the unequal status of minorities as members of the United States national community and citizenry. Basically‚ the U.S. citizen has been defined as a white male. This subsequently has meant that especially persons of color have been "conceived in the popular mind as outside of the ’boundaries’ of the ’American’ community"
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States and Mexico. Designed originally to bring a experienced Mexican agricultural laborers to harvest sugar beets in Stockton‚ California‚ but soon spread to most of the United States and to the railroad industry. Although the railroad program ended in 1945‚ after World War II the agricultural program continued until 1964. Originally‚ the program was designed to protect the illegal migrant workers against the exploitation by American farmers. However‚ it was criticized and was viewed as a failure
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Zoot Suit Riots. Decades of discrimination have forced the Mexican-American community to turn inward. By the 1940‚ LA 240‚000 Mexican-American lived in a series of neighborhoods called barrios. These communities were traditional‚ conservative and self-contained. During those years‚ segregations was very usual‚ and any thing was used as an excuse to bad treat Mexicans‚ with the Zoot Suits‚ they were seen as criminals and rebels. Mexican American teenagers that grew up in the atmosphere of a second-class
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California where Mexicans and Mexican-Americans make up the largest group in the Latino community. When asked about the Central American community‚ the interviewees commonly stated they did not know much and often associated Central Americans to Mexican/Mexican-Americans generalizations. One of the interviewees mentioned that “Central Americans are similar to Mexicans” when asked why she feels that way she explained that “…since I don’t know much about them I can only connect them to Mexicans because that
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The Chicano Movement also known as El Movimiento played a major part in the American Civil Rights Movement. This movement began to take place in the 1960s and ended in the 1970s. The term "Chicano" was used as an insulting label for the children of Mexican migrants. In the 1960s the word "Chicano" came to be accepted as a symbol of self-determination and ethnic pride. Many groups came to be about with the word chicano. In order to effect social change‚ Chicanos felt it was necessary to enter politics
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