Armando Montano Analysis

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Every culture has a tendency to have limits or restrictions based upon the looks of one another and Armando Montano felt that throughout his childhood and some also in college. Armando Montano states that he has felt “the push and pull of growing up biracial” although it has helped identify the culture, given the chance to experience the constant travels, and cooking helping with his frustration. Based on these challenges and encountering situations - it will demonstrate specifically how he helped him look at the bigger picture.
Montano has learned through his experiences in life, how to identify his culture. Throughout the essay, it has given several incidents in which he faced a situation based on his race. For instance, when he was six
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In the process of the trip, his mouth began to bitter and make him broke. Although in Argentine the food was completely diverse and they seemed so confused over the type of dishes that they were to properly have. Case in point, eating the huevos rancheros scrapped against his mouth and the weak margarita left him thirsty. For the biweekly things needed to change, so he started cooking. He spent the day assembling the ingredients and from all over the city and after his finished eating he begins letting the friends eat. They never knew that this is how the food was supposed to taste because the food that they are used to does not have that good of a flavor compared to Montano’s cooking.
In the final analysis, Montano Armando has experienced many things within his childhood to adulthood to teach him how to cope growing up with the existence of his biracial lifestyle. The challenges being identifying the culture, experiencing the constant travels and cooking to help deal with the frustration of everything going on. Having gathered the knowledge of this type of information he better understood his immigrant father and his own existence. This is all he needed to understand in order to deal with his existence, so he could not hate his self

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