race and ethnicity I’m facing right now. I am a Pacific Islander and a minority out here in the United States. People think that I do not know English well or that I’m an immigrant. It breaks my heart whenever this happens to me. My island is a Commonwealth to the United States. I learned so much about the United States government and its people while they have no knowledge about where I am from. I am glad I took
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Judith Ortiz Cofer and Brent Staples may not sound like they have much in common growing up in very different cultures‚ Cofer being Puerto Rican and Staples being African American‚ but both have lived extremely similar lives. Both have faced the ugly head of stereotypes and racism in America. Cofer describes how she felt growing up in her essay‚ “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”. She explains the struggles of being stereotyped and how being a minority contributed to her
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Love has a variety of effects on people. When it is pure it can change people for the better and heal their pain. “Catch the Moon” was written by a Puerto Rican American woman and is set in the Caribbean Hispanic Barrio. “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” is written by a Caucasian man from New Hampshire and is set in a New England summer home waterfront community. In “Catch the Moon” and “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” The main character a teenage boy‚ believes himself to be in love with
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characterized by its wide prevalence and strong influences‚ always exerts huge influence and imposes pressure upon minority cultures. In the memoir‚ When I Was Puerto Rican‚ Esmeralda Santiago recalled her childhood both in Puerto Rica and America‚ and revealed how American culture affected Puerto Rican culture and traditions. In the 1940s‚ people in Puerto Rica experienced intensive cultural impact from their powerful neighbor country‚ America. In Santiago’s hometown‚ people were given lectures about health
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On September 20th‚ the island of Puerto Rico lost its charm and its story changed forever. It started with just some rain and wind and it ended destroying all that it founds in its path‚ including Puerto Rico. Can you imagine the sound of the wind being like if a monster was outside of your house and it wants to enter? That’s how the people of Puerto Rico felt with the wind of this atmospheric catastrophe call Hurricane Maria. It was like taken from a horror movie. Hurricane Maria destroyed houses
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settled in Peru} South America -The ARAWAKS and CARIBS originally settled in South America (Bolivia & Brazil). They then migrated to the West Indies. At the time of the European arrival the Arawaks inhabited the Greater Antilles and half of Puerto Rico‚ While the Caribs controlled the Lesser Antilles. The word Arawak defines a Linguistic Group. There were many distinctive tribal groups‚ which settled in the Caribbean most of them were Arawak speaking people. The Lucayans were only found in the
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for the way they dressed‚ their education‚ and the way they were viewed just by watching a movie. Also their lack of English they had and the differences between her race and the American race. Both of the writers are informing readers of how deeply Puerto Ricans and blacks are stereotyped. Moreover of how their race is being judged and discriminated against just from what they see and hear. First of all Staples explains how white women and other people view him by the color of his skin and appearance
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reading‚ had headphones in his ears and is casually dressed. There is a guy with a red sweater who is standing in front of me leaning on the pole. I see A African American woman dressed in all black leaning on the train door playing with her iPad. A Puerto- Rican guy is leaning on train door who is wearing on a grey hat. There is a Caucasian girl who looks to be in her early 20s‚ she is blonde‚ wearing bright red lipstick‚ big headphones in her ears‚ standing‚ floral pants‚ jean jacket‚ black bag‚ playing
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10 9. Small transistor radio (receives radio stations only – not a transmitter) 12 10. Shark repellent 9 11. 20 square feet of opaque plastic 8 12. 15 feet of nylon rope 7 13. 2 boxes of chocolate bars 4 14. Fishing kit 5 15. 1 quart of 160 proof Puerto Rican rum 11
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My childhood best friend and her family hosted a foreign exchange student when we were in middle school. He was a couple years older than us but I got to know him pretty well in the time he spent studying in America. One of the things that I remember the most about him being “culturally” different was his view of importance of eating as a family at least twice a day. I remember after he moved in‚ my best friend’s family started to eat breakfast together and either lunch or dinner together as well
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