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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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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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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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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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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Draft of Argumentative Essay/ 01 July 7‚ 2011 Should Puerto Rico Become the 51st State? Should Puerto Rico become the union’s 51st state? Puerto Rico has been under US sovereignty since the Spanish American War in 1898‚ where United States gained territorial control of Puerto Rico‚ along with Philippines and Guam. Since this time‚ United States and Puerto Rico have engaged in a very peculiar relationship; and to this date‚ Puerto Rico remains a territory. In 1917‚ part of the Jones-Shafroth
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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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