...passes, it undoubtedly revolves around one central concept- my identity. Often times I proudly refer to my people, Chicanos, as warriors. This label is concise with who we are because throughout history we have been able to fight and counterattack injustices brought upon us by others. I identify as a Chicana not only due to the fact that I am of Mexican descent, but also because I feel like the warrior spirit of my ancestors dwells within me. Even since ancient times, my people were brave and fearless warriors...
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...Media in Mexican National Identity: The use of Mexican national symbol “La Virgen de Guadalupe” to unite the country. Nowadays, Mexico is facing one of its hardest periods of all times. As the drug war is taking control over the whole country, other major problems such as insecurity, unemployment and poverty are taking part of Mexicans lifestyle. This had lead to a series of internal problems that have caused the population to distrust the government and try to find a solution to all these problems from a different source: faith. Mexico’s national identity has always been recognized as being one of the strongest and most distinguished identities in the world, with a united and rich culture, full of beliefs, memories, history and symbols; Mexican culture was something Mexicans always felt very proud about. But with such problems affecting the country, Mexico needs more than ever maintain this feeling of feeling proud about being Mexicans, to start being positive about things getting better and continue improving in order grow and share their culture they are very proud about. The media is always playing an important role in Mexican’s lifestyle. In this case, we choose to make the example of Mexican Television and how it has played an important role reinforcing national identity with a known Mexican symbol “ The Virgin of Guadalupe”, a symbol that is full of history and which has united Mexicans before. We will analyze the way that the media in Mexico has taken this religious...
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...American identity is a subject that varies from person to person and typically refers to the way that those who live in America identify themselves. Both Okita's poem and in Cisneros' story demonstrate how true identity is determined by the individual based on experience and actions rather than heritage. American Identity is subjective and not objective, those who aren't American by birth can see themselves as an American depending on what they do and how they live their lives. In "Response to Executive Order 9066", Okita describes her life before the order, and how it was no different from other American girls. She lived an ordinary life with other ordinary people. She characterizes herself using plain words for all to understand, "I am a...
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...the blood of the Lunas to be quiet, for only a quiet man can learn the secrets of the earth that are necessary for planting. They are quiet like the moon. And it is the blood of the Márez to be wild, like the ocean from which they take their name, and the spaces of the llano that have become their home." (Anaya, p.41) To this day, Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, is a book I hold dearly to my heart. Personally, I have always struggled to understand the Mexican-American aspect of my identity. With the physical presence of the United States- Mexican border, my identity is affected when I can consider myself simultaneously both an original and foreign from these locations. As Gentzler states, “ I hope to show how the Americas comprise multiple languages; its peoples speak with multiple voices, and its citizens have multiple identities, which are, consciously or subconsciously, always involved in the process of translation.” (Gentzler, p.146) Reading Bless...
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...Any identity can be found, lost, made up, shared, and related to. Whether it be from one’s culture, family, beliefs or experiences people find their identity or identities throughout life. For others it can be a struggle and a hardship to find their identity of who they are or want to be. Throughout life, humans find their role in it and what they choose to do in the life they live. Living the life one wants includes finding their self-identity along the way whenever that may be. One may ask themselves, Who am I? and that is why humans have an extraordinary lifetime to figure that out. Not everyone’s experiences will be the same, or positive, but it is others peoples stories we listen to, to understand and appreciate them as human beings and...
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...Abby Salinas Professor Ruiz LAST 1020 18 February 2016 Fools Without Borders: A Conversation in Transnational Identity Politics Sin Nombre confronts its viewers with more than the harsh realities of crime and violence in Latin America. Cary Fukunaga intertwines the lives of Sayra – a young Honduran immigrant looking to reach the United States – and Willy – a Mexican gangster whose cognitive understanding of community has shattered and turned into his worst nightmare. The result is a potent exposition of the effects of globalization on transnational interactions, community identity, and urban space. Paired with Zilberg’s ethnographic study of Maras and Marreros across borders, Sin Nombre suggests that forced trans-nationality and the associated evolution of multifaceted identity politics are propelling modern society away from an identification of individuals based on nationality (where they live) and instead by Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined communities (who and what they live with). The characters presented in both the movie and Zilberg’s study represent threats to their respective social orders and are therefore confronted with a forced separation from their communities and homes. Willy (the gangster in Sin Nombre) threatened the hierarchical structure of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS) by killing his superior. His options were to attempt exile or to accept death. Weasel (a subject in Zilberg’s study), proved to hold a disregard for American laws by ending up in...
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...Associate Program Material Diversity Worksheet Answer each question in 50 to 150 words. Provide citations for all the sources you use. 1. What is diversity? Why is diversity valued? Diversity is the similarities and differences that people have in perspectives, identities, and points of view. Diversity includes race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, socio- economic, nationality, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, ability and age. (Definition of Diversity, 1999). Valuing diversity is patterns influence the way people understand and interpret the world. Diversity enhances the intellectual, emotional, economic, moral, and spiritual life of the community, which is why diversity is valued. 2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrism is the evolution of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture/ the belief that your culture or way of doing something is better than another culture’s. (Dictionary.com, 2013). Ethnocentrism can be bad; it ultimately can lead to racism and prejudice. It is important for racial and cultural tolerance, also people should understand that their way is not the only way. 3. Define emigration and immigration. Emigration is the actual act of relocation from a country. Immigrate means to come to a country of which one is not a native for a permanent residence. (Dictionary...
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...Cultural Identity Essay Directions: Using your knowledge on writing MLA formatted essays, write the cultural identity synthesis essay below. What is your cultural identity? There are many different things that describe culture and ethnicity isn't the only one. One source stated, “People from multiple ethnic backgrounds may identify as belonging to the same culture” (Trumbull and Pacheco 9). You don’t have to be all the same ethnicity to belong to the same culture, you could all be something different and still follow the same traditions. For one to truly get a gist of their culture they have to examine it closely in order to better understand it. Trumbull and Pacheco both explain, “Social groups existing within one nation may share a...
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...Everyone in society has different identities that helps describe who they are. We all have different roles that make us unique and are influenced by occurrences that happen within the home and outside the home. Some of our identities can make us much stronger individuals or weaken us by being judged. My identities however, have made me a much stronger person to achieve goals, wishes, and successes. In this paper I will go more in detail on how my identities made me became more appreciative of where I come from and the experiences from childhood up to now. My culture has shaped my understanding of how important the values and traditions done at home can bring the family very close. My generational status really has influenced my decision on...
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...Whenever we look at a playground, we supposed to see some children play happily with their peers and some are not. Have you ever wonder what make their behavior are so different? Life span development studies of how people grow and change during all phase of their lives. In the book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou proves that development is multidimensional including biological, cognitive and socioemotional. Maya is three years old and her brother, Bailey, is four experienced broken family and were sent to Stamps, Arkansas with pieces of paper attached on their bodies “to whom may it concern”. They live with their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson, whom soon they called Momma. Maya and Bailey who was born and grew up were abandoned without the love, care and nourishment in a good environment with their biological parents have had many struggles to face during childhood to early adolescence and affect their entire life. As the beginning of the book, Maya was unable to finish her poem “What are you looking at me for? I didn’t come to stay…” According to Erikson, Maya must be in initiative versus guilt stage because Maya feels that she is awkward and ugly with kinky hair and dark skin. She dreams to be a beautiful white child with the straight blonde hair and blue eyes, not because she didn’t like herself, but because was taught not to like her Blackness. The social norms with stenotype expectation influences Maya’s development and personality when...
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...What Chicanos and Latinos have dealt with while living in America has changed their identities and behaviors. Chicanos/nas identities have been impacted positively or negatively due to experiences in school and because of them being aware of their race. In addition, comparing themselves to other minorities and being conscious has affected their identities. Furthermore, there aren’t only Chicanos/nas in America, there are three separate groups which are Chicanos, Mexican Americans, and Latinos. Even though these groups sound closely related to each other, they have their differences. Some of the differences include how politically/socially involved they are, how much education they’ve received, transnational identity, and how much they...
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...In his book: “Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity”, Samuel P. Huntington showed his strong worries with the American identity. According to this book, Huntington thought because of lack of common enemies and opposites, the cohesion power and common identity of American people diminished in the past twenty years. He also blamed the Latino immigrants, especially the Mexican immigrants for threatening the American political foundation with the impact on American culture and language they brought. Under this circumstance, he called on a more concrete American identity, which not only includes the “American creed”, but also embodies a core culture. Different with many people, he argued United States is fundamentally a “settler” nation rather than an “immigration” nation. And the initial settlers, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP), had a dominating effect on the subsequent values and direction of the country. So the Anglo-Protestantism culture, which includes Protestant work ethic and centrality of the religion to personal life, should be re-affirmed as the American core culture, and United States, which he believe ought to be a nation-state, should be built upon this base. And he implied that American government should take measures to limit Latino immigration and take Islam as a national enemy. Huntington’s view has a clear conservative and Republican color. Huntington himself probably views himself as a firm patriot, however what I read is that...
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...As a Mexican-American, it’s hard to know to wich world I should identity myself; I really feel Mexican when I eat spicy foods all days or when I dance banda in the party's, but that feeling goes away when I speak English in school or even in my house. As a Mexican, I feel myself a true, native, Mexican born American. So I am Mexican-American. Althought sometimes I feel confused as to wich world I belong to, for me there’s no question I’m first Mexican; I’m the result of my parents American dream, I use to live in Mexico and I know how to work and talk like all the Mexican people do, but when I speak english I reveal my obvious American nationality. Sometimes I feel really sad and angry when someone refers to me as an allien or...
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...living in America and keeping their cultural identity alive in the home. The people who form a nation, like America, have an integrated identity composed of their cultural origin. 2. In chapter 2, Where Green Chiles Roam – No es imposibl, Tobar depicts the dichotomy of illegal immigration at the border, one side with the fantasy of life across the border and the other side, the reality of living in America. This highlights that living conditions and perspective are truly a function of perspective. 3. In chapter 3, Brother Citizen, Brother Alien – Sin fronteras, Tobar portrays a specific encounter he had with two brothers that are separated by citizenship, cultural and national. 4. In chapter 4, The Wanderers – El destierro, Tobar depicts the lives of immigrants, the channels through which they cross and life after crossing the border. It is one depicted of wandering travel and job seeking. 5. In chapter 5, In the Land of the New – En la tierra de lo nuevo, Tobar illustrates fantasy, of those who immigrate, meeting reality through brokenness in the education system. 6. In chapter 6, Our Secret Latin Heartlands – Los secretos del machete, Tobar depicts the phenomenon of immigrants who reject their Mexican cultural identity for the desperate hope of being integrated into “American culture”. Tobar brings reason and sheds light upon how damaging that can be and depicts how powerful and positively impactful it can be for Mexicans to embrace their culture through his fried...
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...United States of America consists of a plethora of cultures. The population of Mexico is 113.7 million people and increasing 1.10 percent annually (Huntington, 2005). Mexico’s population is an estimated 60 percent mixture of with indigenous heritage and Spanish. The multiple indigenous groups are approximately 30 percent, and the European ancestry is approximately nine percent. The largest city in Mexico is Mexico City and New York is the largest city in the United States of America. The two cities are over 17 million, another similarity between the two countries (Rosenberg, 2013). The United States of America and Mexico differ in values, patterns in language, beliefs, and values. The average American generally speaks English and the average Mexican generally speaks Spanish. Throughout areas in both countries, various individuals speak both English and Spanish. The knowledge of both languages assists in communication among international relationships, between the two...
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