It is difficult being surrounded in a world where the view on culture and race are always changing There are two ways in which people can go about this, accept defeat and accept the changes, or fight to keep the identity alive. People such as Malcom X, Richard Rodriguez and Gloria Anzaldua were all placed in situations where they decided on what was best for their future. Culture and race had a major influence in their life because that decided whether or not they will succeed in fitting into a new society. Being around people who are not from the same race can discourage them from trying. Richard Rodriguez, a Mexican American, was going to a Roman-Catholic church that was a predominantly an Anglo-Saxon race. In the passage, “Aria:
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Gloria Anzaldua, a Chicana, did not want to be silenced by the new society. In school English was starting to seem as the home language for America and no other language was going to be accepted. Not only was Spanish being targeted from the Anglo-Saxon, but also from other Mexicans because what she spoke was not Spanish. There was confliction from both sides of her, so she needed to find something that identified herself. In the passage “How to tame a Wild Tongue”, Anzaldua lionizes, “I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.” (40). Not only is her culture slowly being taken away from her through her She realizes that since neither side was going to accept her she made her own identity, which was being a Chicana. In other words Anzaldua will not be silence anymore because she knows if she gives in to the new worlds language then her culture will be dead because the new world was able to change one portion of what makes a culture. This has inspired her way of thinking as more of rebellious act because no one around her was supporting her because other Mexicans wanted her to just give in to the Anglo-Saxon world, but she couldn’t because she didn’t have anything else that she could take to her
Gloria Anzaldua, a Chicana, did not want to be silenced by the new society. In school English was starting to seem as the home language for America and no other language was going to be accepted. Not only was Spanish being targeted from the Anglo-Saxon, but also from other Mexicans because what she spoke was not Spanish. There was confliction from both sides of her, so she needed to find something that identified herself. In the passage “How to tame a Wild Tongue”, Anzaldua lionizes, “I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.” (40). Not only is her culture slowly being taken away from her through her She realizes that since neither side was going to accept her she made her own identity, which was being a Chicana. In other words Anzaldua will not be silence anymore because she knows if she gives in to the new worlds language then her culture will be dead because the new world was able to change one portion of what makes a culture. This has inspired her way of thinking as more of rebellious act because no one around her was supporting her because other Mexicans wanted her to just give in to the Anglo-Saxon world, but she couldn’t because she didn’t have anything else that she could take to her