Being born in China but living in America, she seems ashamed of her roots and that is why she is embarrassed when her mother speaks broken English (Tan 142-146). But, although she tries hard to be American speaking and writing good English, she realizes that she has deviated from her true self. She finally makes peace with her mother and she starts appreciating her “Mother Tongue”, which consequently affects her writing positively. This shows just how peoples’ native languages are important in their lives. Our “Mother Tongue” is what gives us identity; it defines who we are, and therefore, people should value their native languages.
Hwang's parents are from Korean ethnicity and taught Hwang to become a fully assimilated American, since she was born in America. Not knowing how to pronounce her last name correctly didn't seem to bother Hwang's parents at all. Yet, being a fully assimilated American young lady doesn't mean she can marry an American guy, no, her parent's wanted Korean children. In the other hand, in "The Myth of the Latin Woman, Cofer a young Puerto-Rican girl living in New Jersey lives her life from her mother's expectations of a fully assimilated Puerto-Rican girl with the same traditions and customs. Cofer is expected to wear similar clothes as in she would in Puerto-Rico, wear bright tropical colors, wear lots of jewelry and accessorries to stand out, eat spanish food, and buy food at bodegas.
Communication is first step of living in a new culture, by looking through Coffers’ mother, she fears joining the American culture, because communication is the way to create culture and she is afraid to learn it. But the satirical thing is Coffer thinks she is a real American, and not a Puerto Rican, she even feels shame to speak Spanish. It is a serious problem for new generations to realize what is right for us to changing and assimilating what is wrong for us to make a self examination. Between dual cultures there have many concepts for difference generation to comparing and learning. Coffer’s father whom decided to leave their home from Puerto Rico to United Stat for making their future better by have a well paying job
Cofer also talks a little about how the movies portray Puerto Rican and Latin Woman. It’s the main reason why we Americans automatically stereotype Puerto Rican and Latin women; it’s all we have seen, in the movies, so we don’t really know what the Puerto Rican or Latin culture is really like. The other main point Cofer makes is that even though she had a hard time when she was growing up she still became successful and that any one can do the same. We just have to turn all the negative into a positive and keep on living. I liked this article and I strongly agree with it.
Based off this definition the Anna Todd Jennings scholarship is not being racist. Yes the scholarship is only for white people, but not because Caucasian is the superior race. Daniels says, “The Anna Todd Jennings scholarship is a subtle but nonetheless dangerous expression of racism”. This statement is false because if every race specific concept was addressed as racism, the world would turn mad. Most races have scholarships offered just to them, so having one for white people should not cause a problem.
If she would have stayed and worked, Mae Mobley would have had that strong voice throughout her childhood. I think that her attempt at convincing Mae Mobley’s mind had influenced her well. I strongly believe that Mae Mobley wouldn’t have supported her parents’ opinion towards racism and sexism, due to the outlook Aibileen helped her try and see towards black people. At the time, racism was the main point of view during the novel. Racism can be defined as prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief.
Rosie said being gay does not make someone a bad parent. She stated that restricting the qualified adoptive parents isn't the solution and is not beneficial. She was thrown back to find out there were half a million kids in foster care in America. As an adoptive parent it stunned her that these children will more than likely age out of the system, and go either to welfare or jail. In this video Rosie stated that her coming-out was not an earth-shattering moment.
In "My Two Lives" by Jhumpa Lahiri, Lahiri examines her personal past and difficulties she faced as a child. As an Indian having grownup in an American Culture since the age of two, she has always felt that she had to be balanced in her two cultures, as in not be more Indian than American or not be more American than Indian. "Like many immigrant offspring, I felt intense pressure to be two things, loyal to the old world and fluent in the new, approved of on either side of the hyphen". Lahiri felt pressured and confused as she could not focus on neither culture as she had to live her Indian culture while at home and live
Pat Mora’s poem entitled Immigrants is a very accurate representation of this point. In her writing she describes the general emotions and actions of families who have moved to America from spanish and polish speaking countries. Mora has a very interesting way of capturing many immigrant parents concerns about raising their child as a “fine american boy” or a “fine american girl” (Mora) by the standards set by the society around them. As mentioned earlier the United States definately does not make it easy for immigrants to create a life,
She believes that having blue eyes would change the way other people see her, giving her something white America values as beautiful. Even more interestingly, she believes she would see things differently through blue eyes, that they would somehow give her the relatively carefree life of a white, middle-class child. In part because of her low self-esteem as a poor black child, Pecola does not believe in her own beauty or her own free will. She spends her life praying for a miracle because she cannot conceive of being able to change her life on her own. We also like the idea that "blue" can refer to sadness.