Analyzing Sandra Cisneros's 'Mexican In France'

The subjective perspective on a certain individual's culture, history and language marks the starts of an endless dispute on whether or not the meaning behind their intentions were deliberately aim to disrespect one’s race. While the critiques on race is considered a normal occurrence, it brings the rising question on whether or not the illustration of a person’s social and cultural identity through the use of literature could pose as an informative and objective to critically analyze for constructive criticism to improve and understand society's’ viewpoints on certain preconceived opinions about a set race. In Mexican in France by Sandra Cisneros, the poem reveals society’s subconscious responses to a person’s appearances and how they seem to give the impression in which their ethics group have cultivated in the eyes’ of the general public. …show more content…
The poem starts off with the man stimulating a conversation with the mexican woman by directly bringing up his appreciation to a country, Mexico, due to the characteristic the female had on being a mexican. The underlying message from the start-up conversation can be inferred as the subconscious response in which one’s take to connect with another. By bringing in a common ground knowledge or an understanding of some sort, for example, bring in a personal opinion about the person’s background country or introducing an appealing statement, can connect a person to the conversation as it establish the potential outcomes of the conversation. He “want[ed] to talk about U.S racism” as a follow up topic in the conversation which can illustrate that there’s some sort of acknowledgement of racism that reside in the time period in which the character are communicating in