Elizabeth Rodriguez
Professor Marcelo
CAS 113A
19 September, 2015 Transnationalism Identity is who you are. Who you identify yourself as. They are many different ways on defining identity and it all has to do within the situation. In this case I define it as, knowing who you are or what something is. Another word that also should be defined is Transnationalism. Transnationalism is going beyond national boundaries and interests. In two class readings that we covered, “Central American Identities” by Beatriz Cortez and Douglas Carranza and “Alla en Guatemala”: Transnationalism, language, and Identity of a Pentecostal Guatemalan-American Young Women” by Lucila D. EK, had many great points. It covered the concept of Identity and Transnationalism. One should be able to know who they are and identify themselves. The concept of these two terms is to identify who they are, to know where you come from, and be able to connect, without feeling left out. The authors of the reading have many great points. The reason one can take their points and consider them valuable is because they have the credentials. The first author is Beatriz Cortez. Beatriz is currently working at California State …show more content…
How many people don’t know how to identify themselves? For example, in one of the interviews that Lucila had was about a young girl who identified herself as American, but when she was younger she would identify herself as Guatemalan. The reason she would say that is because her parents come from there, they were born there. But she was not so that is why she doesn’t identify herself as Guatemalan, but American. Many of the times people aren’t able to identify their nationality because they don’t know how. They were born here but raised with the customs of their parents, with their values and morals they were raised back home in their place or nationality just making it harder for the children to say who they
Professor Marcelo
CAS 113A
19 September, 2015 Transnationalism Identity is who you are. Who you identify yourself as. They are many different ways on defining identity and it all has to do within the situation. In this case I define it as, knowing who you are or what something is. Another word that also should be defined is Transnationalism. Transnationalism is going beyond national boundaries and interests. In two class readings that we covered, “Central American Identities” by Beatriz Cortez and Douglas Carranza and “Alla en Guatemala”: Transnationalism, language, and Identity of a Pentecostal Guatemalan-American Young Women” by Lucila D. EK, had many great points. It covered the concept of Identity and Transnationalism. One should be able to know who they are and identify themselves. The concept of these two terms is to identify who they are, to know where you come from, and be able to connect, without feeling left out. The authors of the reading have many great points. The reason one can take their points and consider them valuable is because they have the credentials. The first author is Beatriz Cortez. Beatriz is currently working at California State …show more content…
How many people don’t know how to identify themselves? For example, in one of the interviews that Lucila had was about a young girl who identified herself as American, but when she was younger she would identify herself as Guatemalan. The reason she would say that is because her parents come from there, they were born there. But she was not so that is why she doesn’t identify herself as Guatemalan, but American. Many of the times people aren’t able to identify their nationality because they don’t know how. They were born here but raised with the customs of their parents, with their values and morals they were raised back home in their place or nationality just making it harder for the children to say who they