lot and face this in my life. Later in the second chapter the author goes deeper in the history of French‚ German and Italian extra-conjugal lives and expounds how the prostitution in this countries origins and subsequently developed. Part II Borderland problems of the extra-conjugal erotic life. Chapter I. Comparative sexual psychology in various contries. Though love is an impulse based upon sexual differentiation of the man from the woman‚ it is absolutely regardless of nationality. In
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in‚ “Speaking In Tongues” by Zadie Smith and “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldùa. Smith and Anzaldùa both shared a similar problem. They were afraid that they may lose or already lost their voice/language. While Anzaldùa did everything to prevent that‚ “I had to “argue” with one advisor after the other‚ semester after semester‚ before I was allowed to make Chicano literature an area of focus” (Anzaldùa 376). Smith on the other hand just tried to fit in‚ “A braver person‚ perhaps‚ would
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Additionally in the excerpts “How to Tame a Wild Tongue‚” Gloria Anzaldua‚ while she mainly focuses on the language of “Mexican” people in different aspects‚ also mentions her strife as a bilingual student. Although these two stories are different in many ways but they both reflect the negative impact of living in the “borderlands”. To better understand those cultural conflicts‚ it is essential to know exactly what the borderlands consist of and who spans there‚ but most importantly what they represent
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chose to exist outside the lines. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa explains the challenges experienced and unique perspectives gained by those who defy nationalities and cultures through their very existence. The author’s examination of culture‚ language and hierarchical societal norms states that the new Mestiza person "copes by developing a tolerance for contradictions‚ a tolerance for ambiguity" in the fight to gain legitimacy (Anzaldúa 101). The author compares the Mestiza
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Unity or Diversity Two of the poems which I found myself fascinated with are “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levins Morales and “To live in the Borderlands means you” by Gloria Anzaldúa. These two poems talk about the pride of each of the author’s cultures and races. The authors do not want to make excuses for being the way they are but want to tell about the pride they feel for being the way they are‚ and they found no way to change themselves but show that history has made them the way they are
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writer‚ Gloria Anzaldua proposes people of different races to confront their fears in order to move forward into a world that is a less hateful and more useful. Similarly‚ philosopher and writer‚ Kwame Appiah approaches this matter with cosmopolitanism. The meaning of cosmopolitanism is the focus of the world as being a whole rather than just a specific group. It is the belief that all humans belong to a single community based on a shared understanding that we are all similar. Both Anzaldua and Appiah’s
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Gloria Anzaldúa defies her border culture’s female gender standards by using her native male gendered language to speak out against her border culture’s beliefs and encouraging other Chicanas to embrace what the American culture has to offer. Border cultures are
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oppress the unfamiliar. To be confronted with a different opinion or way of living is uncomfortable. It challenges the ideas we are familiar with and the mental sets we have developed into concrete habits. In the essay by Gloria Anzaldua‚ How to Tame a Wild Tongue‚ Anzaldua provides us with her story of oppression. As a Spanish-speaking individual brought up in an American education system‚ she was hard-pressed by her teachers to forget her roots and adapt to an American way of thinking and speaking
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completely new. This identity is often a point of pride. It is celebration of a complex history and a reclamation of the mestiza land and body. Over the years‚ Chicanx activists‚ theorists‚ artists‚ and writers have attempted to understand what a “borderlands” identity could mean. At the start of the movement‚ Chicano activist Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzáles wrote the famous poem “I am Joaquín” in which he embraces the contradiction inherently present in mestizaje. He writes‚ And now! I must choose between
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to the Voices from the Margins in Introduction to Philosophy such as Cornel West‚ “Learning to Talk of Race”‚ Gloria Anzaldúa‚ “La Frontera/Borderlands”‚ Dr. Steve Best‚ “Legally Blind: The Case For Granting Animal Rights”‚ and Carol Adams‚ “ The Sexual Politics of Meat”. Adams and Best present topics about animals‚ meat‚ and the exploitation and politics related. West and Anzaldúa address topics of race and unknown identity within a changing society. “Learning To Talk of Race” Cornell West According
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