In this book, Gloria Anzaldua mentioned many difficulties Mexican faced when being raised in America (Background). She showed the differences between American’s culture and Mexican’s culture (Background). She also talked about sexism, cultural imperialism, racism, self-esteem, etc (Exhibit). Mexicans have to speak with little or no accent or else they will not be respected (Background). I think this book is valuable because it showed not only African, or the disabled are suffering from unfair treatment but other cultures suffered as well. This story proved that anyone can suffered due to their differences. When Gloria tried to tell the teacher how to pronounce her name, the teacher replied, “If you want to be American, speak American, If you
