Gloria Anzaldua And Eric Liu: Case Study
English21b.1156
2/7/11
EP3
Like everything in life, there is always a cause to something and with a cause come’s its effects. In the case of Gloria Anzaldua and Eric Liu we see that the cause of them having to assimilate is because they live in a dominant society to which their culture and identity do not meet the standards of the currents society. This causes them to have to assimilate so that they are able to fit in. In the case of Anzaldua we see that she has to change the way that she speaks because she has been brought up to think that the way she speaks with her accent is not right, she needs to assimilate her ways by changing the way she speaks to be …show more content…
Both Anzaldua and Liu go through a process of assimilation, they differentiate in the sense that Liu doesn’t mind having to change his ways, as were Anzaldua is against having to change the way she is to please the standards other people perceive to be appropriate about the dominant …show more content…
And yet it is as though Liu never really had to assimilate because when he was born his parents were not traditional to begin with. We are able to see that Liu has accepted his form of assimilation because he refers to himself as a “banana.” “Banana” being the term that Asian’s use to describe other Asian’s that “have moved away from the periphery and toward the center of American life.” By moving to the center of American life I believe that Asians mean that it is an Asian who has willingly given up their cultural traditions to take on that of a western life. Liu believes that he his Asian culture in some way holds him back from fitting into the dominant society and culture which is why he is willing to change. We see an example of this during his teenage years as he try’s to do his hair to fit in with what was trending at the time, it results in Liu shaving his hair off. In having shaved his hair he literally loses part of the Asianness in him. He shaved his hair because to him his hair was only a reminder that it would not allow him to fir into the “cool” crowd because it would never allow him too. We see that Liu changes once more to his environment when he goes off to college. He does not fully avoid having Asian friends, but he sets certain ground rules for himself. One of the ground rules that he sets for himself is that he would not join any Asian only clubs. Liu tells his
2/7/11
EP3
Like everything in life, there is always a cause to something and with a cause come’s its effects. In the case of Gloria Anzaldua and Eric Liu we see that the cause of them having to assimilate is because they live in a dominant society to which their culture and identity do not meet the standards of the currents society. This causes them to have to assimilate so that they are able to fit in. In the case of Anzaldua we see that she has to change the way that she speaks because she has been brought up to think that the way she speaks with her accent is not right, she needs to assimilate her ways by changing the way she speaks to be …show more content…
Both Anzaldua and Liu go through a process of assimilation, they differentiate in the sense that Liu doesn’t mind having to change his ways, as were Anzaldua is against having to change the way she is to please the standards other people perceive to be appropriate about the dominant …show more content…
And yet it is as though Liu never really had to assimilate because when he was born his parents were not traditional to begin with. We are able to see that Liu has accepted his form of assimilation because he refers to himself as a “banana.” “Banana” being the term that Asian’s use to describe other Asian’s that “have moved away from the periphery and toward the center of American life.” By moving to the center of American life I believe that Asians mean that it is an Asian who has willingly given up their cultural traditions to take on that of a western life. Liu believes that he his Asian culture in some way holds him back from fitting into the dominant society and culture which is why he is willing to change. We see an example of this during his teenage years as he try’s to do his hair to fit in with what was trending at the time, it results in Liu shaving his hair off. In having shaved his hair he literally loses part of the Asianness in him. He shaved his hair because to him his hair was only a reminder that it would not allow him to fir into the “cool” crowd because it would never allow him too. We see that Liu changes once more to his environment when he goes off to college. He does not fully avoid having Asian friends, but he sets certain ground rules for himself. One of the ground rules that he sets for himself is that he would not join any Asian only clubs. Liu tells his