In west side story the Puerto Ricans are highly discriminated against. This movie takes place in Manhattan around the 1950’s when the only acceptable way to live was as a middle class white man. Everyone else was marginalized. In the 21st century many African American teenage boys are still discriminated‚ many people think they are scary or bad people. No matter what happens many ethnic groups will always be marginalized because we don’t trust them even though we should. Its an individual person’s
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present in her life. For instance‚ her family spoke in Spanish‚ ate Puerto Rican food‚ and practiced strict Catholicism. Cofer tells how humiliated she felt every time she appeared at an American friend’s party wearing something completely different than others. She remembers a day in high school‚ the “Career Day‚” where the teacher told the class to go dressed out as if for a job interview. Cofer points out that such day Puerto Rican girls were made the negative models because they always stood
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Gutierrez and my racial background is Hispanic. I am half Puerto Rican and half Dominican born and raised in the U.S. A lot of people question what I am because of my features. When it comes to my cultural background I am Hispanic but I am closer to my Puerto Rican side of the family. I’m just me. Furthermore I consider myself to be American. I consider myself to be American because I was born and raised here in the U.S. My mother is Puerto Rican also born and raised in the U.S. On the other hand
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Elvis A Navarro BLS 245 September 23‚ 2008 My Personal experiences with Racism Racism has always been a big topic in society‚ even during Jesus Christ time. I believe racism comes from independent thinking and views and how this view from family‚ friends and society forms us each day. Racism has to do a lot with social status‚ money‚ power‚ looks‚ sex and much more. Coming from a third world country I can really see the major differences of racism how they vary by culture and education. My
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further suppress herself. Laviera ’s poem offers a completely different view point‚ by almost singing every line in your head. we gave birth to a new generation‚ AmeRican‚ broader than the lost gold never touched‚ hidden inside the Puerto Rican mountains. (1-4) The author speaks of a type of freedom that includes everyone equally “a new generation” (5). Everyone at peace with each other. Everyone treated in the same loving way. Getting rid of the separation by “spitting out the
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than his sister Madai‚ who suffers from recurring motion sickness during road trips in his father’s brand new‚ lime green‚ Volkswagen van. At the very beginning‚ as Papi arrives home from “work” (later assumed to be his second girlfriend’s house‚ the Puerto Rican) to leave for their party‚ Yunior states “If Papi had
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a place nobody wants to visit. As a Puerto Rican girl living in the United States and wanting like most children to “belong‚” I resented the stereotype that my Hispanic appearance called forth from many people I met. Growing up in a large urban center in New Jersey during the 1960s‚ I suffered from what I think of as a “cultural schizophrenia.” Our life was designed by my parents as a microcosm of their casas on the island. We spoke in Spanish‚ ate Puerto Rican food bought at the bodega‚ and
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dances salsa until early in the morning. Salsa music is to high importance of historical culture of USA because it grew in the neighborhood‚ not only understood as a geographical sphere but as a space of resistance which helped to construct today Puerto Ricans‚ Cubans and Latinamerican populated neighborhoods. It was an expression that tried to set bridges between ancestral music like Afro-cuban Rumba and Guaguanco‚ with the new rhythms that were appearing in the late 1970s. But there was not only
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people‚ of evenly varied ethnicities‚ 41 of them replied with a yes. These results are a relevant example of how much diversity affects the person‚ currently and throughout history. Something New With my mother being Black and my father being Puerto
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Gloria Anzaldua wrote two essays Entering into the Serpent and How to Tame a Wild Tongue. It is difficult for me to understand because both of these two essays are in English and Spanish. I think it is the author’s purpose that let people know how difficult it is to suffer from different cultures and languages. Anzaldua mainly talks about the differences in cultures and languages to show how she fights against people’s common sense of American culture. First‚ she talks about many stories about Spanish
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