What is one thing that every person, essay, animal, object, and really everything shares? Names, every thing in the world has a name. People have named everything from rocks to pets to sometimes even pet rocks., and one thing that every person has in common is a name. Gender specific names, ethnic names, regional names, nick names, every person that is alive has some type of name. Names have been used to pronounce the greatness of kings and to suppress the worth of slaves and minorities. In the Unites States many peoples names are ignored , in some cases people’s names are mispronounced by lazy people who don 't respect the worth of a name, and in many other cases in American history groups of people are given a name simply off the color of
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Muñoz grew up in the small town of Dinuba California and was raised in a farming family of Mexican immigrants. Muñoz is now an accredited author and professor at the University of Arizona who is known for his short stories and novels. In “Leave Your Name at The Border” Muñoz hears a name at the airport that is said very incorrectly which peaks his interest on who the flight attendant that said it is and after seeing that the woman was hispanic he reflects back on his life of all the different family and friend names and his own name. Through Muñoz’s life many Mexican Americans around him have been adapting to american culture and with American culture has come american names. Many older immigrants have changed their names like Muñoz’s father in order to get work and survive in America while many other older immigrants have named their children American names so they can fit in better in American society and not have their children constantly embarrassed with their names being mispronounced or seen as different. The basic message to his article can be seen in this quote, “their Anglicized names begin to signify who does and who does not “belong” — who was born here and who is de allá”( Muñoz A19). Simply based off a first name, people are segregated in their society; people come to america to fulfill their …show more content…
Muñoz’s “Leave your Name at the Border” is a reflection on how he and his family had to change in order to fit in with American culture. Muñoz starts his memoir and ends it talking about how someone at the airport messed up a hispanic name, and between that he talks about how growing up he became used to people messing his name up constantly. Gates looks back in “What’s in a Name” at a memorable event in his childhood, that was one of the fist times in his life that he saw how white people oppressed African Americans. Walking home with his father Gates saw how even with all the privilege in his life just because of the time his dad could be called racial slur “George” just because he had dark skin. Even though these two authors are very different and born in very different times they still faced oppression that focused around their name. The lack of effort from Americans to say Muñoz’s name and the racist tendency to call Gates’ father George. Neither of these are ok and even though over time racism has become less blunt and obvious as in Gates times, it is still a prevalent topic today which can be seen through Muñoz’s life and social problems centered around race needs to be dealt with better for everyone no matter what color their skin
Muñoz grew up in the small town of Dinuba California and was raised in a farming family of Mexican immigrants. Muñoz is now an accredited author and professor at the University of Arizona who is known for his short stories and novels. In “Leave Your Name at The Border” Muñoz hears a name at the airport that is said very incorrectly which peaks his interest on who the flight attendant that said it is and after seeing that the woman was hispanic he reflects back on his life of all the different family and friend names and his own name. Through Muñoz’s life many Mexican Americans around him have been adapting to american culture and with American culture has come american names. Many older immigrants have changed their names like Muñoz’s father in order to get work and survive in America while many other older immigrants have named their children American names so they can fit in better in American society and not have their children constantly embarrassed with their names being mispronounced or seen as different. The basic message to his article can be seen in this quote, “their Anglicized names begin to signify who does and who does not “belong” — who was born here and who is de allá”( Muñoz A19). Simply based off a first name, people are segregated in their society; people come to america to fulfill their …show more content…
Muñoz’s “Leave your Name at the Border” is a reflection on how he and his family had to change in order to fit in with American culture. Muñoz starts his memoir and ends it talking about how someone at the airport messed up a hispanic name, and between that he talks about how growing up he became used to people messing his name up constantly. Gates looks back in “What’s in a Name” at a memorable event in his childhood, that was one of the fist times in his life that he saw how white people oppressed African Americans. Walking home with his father Gates saw how even with all the privilege in his life just because of the time his dad could be called racial slur “George” just because he had dark skin. Even though these two authors are very different and born in very different times they still faced oppression that focused around their name. The lack of effort from Americans to say Muñoz’s name and the racist tendency to call Gates’ father George. Neither of these are ok and even though over time racism has become less blunt and obvious as in Gates times, it is still a prevalent topic today which can be seen through Muñoz’s life and social problems centered around race needs to be dealt with better for everyone no matter what color their skin