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    Cofer - The Myth of the Latin Woman: I just met a girl named Maria March 4‚ 2009 As Judith Ortiz Cofer says in her essay “mixed cultural signals have perpetuated certain stereotypes” (49). Since something can be natural in a determined culture and offensive in another‚ it is easy to find a variety of behaves that are misunderstood. This misunderstood is what promotes the existence of prejudice. The stereotypes should be ignored and forgotten by people. Each individual should be judge by its work

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    The Myth of Latin Woman Throughout life people may be involved in racial abuse‚ especially if they are Latin women; discrimination by people that believe they are superior just because they have born in a different or best country. In “Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ the writer tries to show part of her life and how people in different countries acts in the situation of having someone in front of them with a different culture or skin color‚

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    Mr. Ruth ENG 111; Section 4209 Stereotype: The Myth of a Latin Woman Judith Ortiz Cofer is a Puerto Rican immigrant and a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Georgia. Cofer has written many books‚ poems and essays in her career. As the author of “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”‚ she shows how society uses stereotypes to deny individualism of certain minority groups. In this essay Cofer describes the injustices that Latina women suffer

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    Melanie Allen Dr. Elliott EH 101 November 5‚ 2011 Facts of a Latin WomanMyth of the Latin Woman:/Just Met a Girl Named Maria‚” by Judith Ortiz Cofer tells of her personal experiences as a Latin girl growing up in a large urban city in New Jersey during the sixties. She tells of her journey maneuvering through her childhood trying to find her place in a mixed cultural world and faces many stereotypes. Cofer later learns how to take the negative comments of others and turn them in to positives

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    Jurnal-2 The Myth of the Latin Woman Judith Ortiz Cofer portrays in “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”‚ how society often stereotypes groups without a doubt. In this particular case‚ the offensive stereotype of the Latino women. I enjoyed this article and somewhat agreed with it .I think this story is little different from other story were immigrant American faces different obstacle to adjust

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    Sabika Khan Irina Nizova English 1301-6006 25 June 2014 “Identifying Cultures” All around the world we are one big melting pot. Meaning there are a huge variety of different cultures throughout different nations. But I simply ask one question‚ how does someone tell them apart? There are many ways to differentiate cultures with many different factors. One in particular would be the language they speak. In a more general prospective‚ if someone were to live in Mexico they would obviously speak

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    Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez‚ and in Isabel Allende’s‚ And of Clay we are Created‚ and The Myth of the Latin Woman: / Just Met a Girl Named Maria written

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    Cultural conflict as a Hispanic American female is fueled by multiple complex variables. For a typical Hispanic girl living in America the choice of food‚ clothing‚ customs‚ and beliefs are fueled by family traditions and often twisted by American media. Traditional Hispanic girls‚ speak Spanish‚ eat Puerto Rican food‚ confess their sins to a priest every Saturday and going to their church every Sunday. The environment of the tropics inspire colors of clothing while the climate impacts that amount

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    In “Myth of the Latin Woman”‚ by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ the author points out how she has been treated by different people in different countries due to their conception of her as a Latin woman. She cites several incidents where she was viewed‚ stereotypically‚ as a woman only capable of being a housewife‚ and as a sexual object. She also argues the cross-cultural conflict Hispanics have to deal with on an everyday basis‚ in this‚ purely dominated by Caucasians‚ where cultural traditions are seeing

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    “The Myth of the Latin Woman” The set pieces in this essay are the bus‚ the hotel lobby‚ and the boat restaurant that Judith visits throughout her journey. At the bus she is being stereotyped as nice‚ naïve but at the same time as being dumb just for being a Latina. She takes everything with a smile. Even though‚ this is done in a comic way; which doesn’t seem too harsh but still hurts her feelings because everyone is laughing at her. At the hotel lobby she feels hostile. She is seen by the man

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