1. Valdes-Rodriguez is implying that Cubans are interested in woman based on their body first instead of their mind. After reading this passage I can infer the beauty traits that are more favorable with Cubans are women that are there just to look good and nothing else. The author mentioned that the Cubans like to carry themselves like a man. What I took from that sentence is that they wouldn’t want woman to be more intellectual, to make more money than then, or looking more professional than them. These “man” feeling goes back centuries. Men like to feel like they are needed, and when women are more empowered to do everything on their own, they feel threatened, and that is why I believe the Cuban men didn’t like to interact with the author when she would what she called “flock to liberal intellectuals”.
2. I believe the author does not like her hips in the beginning. She mentioned that her best friend Stacy and her set out on dieting the summer after her hips bloomed and she got whistled and cat called from many men when she was twelve. She did not like being an outcast to the American look. She lists at the end of the passage that she would not like to be held to certain standards on either sides of her family, so I …show more content…
Tan’s attitude towards her mother’s use of language did change over the years for the better. In the beginning of the passage, Tan seemed very embarrassed with her mother’s “broken English”. She mentioned various times that she was red faced when she had to speak on behalf of her mother. After doing research in surveys she had found out that the Chinese’s best subject is not English, and she found this as a challenge. That is why she became an English major. In the time it took Tan to achieve her goals, she realized that her mother has “passion and rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts”. She realized that English can be difficult, and that she appreciated that her mother has the ability and strength to try to learn a second
2. I believe the author does not like her hips in the beginning. She mentioned that her best friend Stacy and her set out on dieting the summer after her hips bloomed and she got whistled and cat called from many men when she was twelve. She did not like being an outcast to the American look. She lists at the end of the passage that she would not like to be held to certain standards on either sides of her family, so I …show more content…
Tan’s attitude towards her mother’s use of language did change over the years for the better. In the beginning of the passage, Tan seemed very embarrassed with her mother’s “broken English”. She mentioned various times that she was red faced when she had to speak on behalf of her mother. After doing research in surveys she had found out that the Chinese’s best subject is not English, and she found this as a challenge. That is why she became an English major. In the time it took Tan to achieve her goals, she realized that her mother has “passion and rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts”. She realized that English can be difficult, and that she appreciated that her mother has the ability and strength to try to learn a second