...Culture and Identity Immigrants have help shaped both American culture and identity, but many people disagree, what do you think? Many people are mixed in America, they can have a black mom and a white dad, which are two totally different cultures and ultimately combined into one, when they have their child. Also, immigrants have helped shape identity by having many different identities from different countries coming to America. In Richard Rodriguez’s essay “Blaxicans and Other Reinvented Americans” he shows how immigrants shaped American culture by having mixed races, making America having mixed nationalities. For example in the essay Rodriguez states, “One doesn’t walk down the street decide to be 40 percent Mexican and 60 percent white”...
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...Richard Rodriguez’s essay “ ‘Blaxicans’ and Other Reinvented Americans,” Rodriguez argues about cultures specifying a person’s identity. Using a race to base their identity as an non valid American life; he argues that a culture is what defines a person. In the essay, he illustrates, “Culture is fluid. Culture is smoke. You breathe it. You eat it. You can’t help it…”(134-137). Rodriguez uses the word “culture” to reveal how a person who moves to a new country can not help to adapt the culture or the tradition the commune celebrates. Usually, this is what happens, people want to blend in the community and make it seem as if they were born there. Another way Rodriguez’s argues that culture is a way to define themselves is through his own self....
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...Race, the classification of a person based on skin color and physical traits. Culture, the customs and art of a particular nation or person. Which one truly defines a person? In the essay, “Blaxican and Other Reinvented Americans,” by Richard Rodriguez, the author emphasizes a person's identity should be based on their culture and not their race. This can be proven through his essay. For instance, “...Americans identifying themselves by virtue of language or fashion or cuisine or literature is an extraordinary change, and a revolutionary one” (90). If there are people who publicly identify themselves this way, then why not allow them to do it legally through allowing them “checking boxes” that have various options. A way of illustrating this...
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...Richard Rodriguez's use of irony in his dissertation titled “Blaxicans’ and Other Reinvented Americans” was not an effective writing style to persuade his audience. The authors opening statement consist of derogatory terminology and offensive vernaculars to the immigrant community specifically Mexicans, but according to OMB the phraseology Hispanic is politically accurate. In Rodriguez’s opening remarks he converses about how immigrants speaking in their language of preference is disturbing. In neighboring lines he also conversates about how immigrants just want to “undo America” as Rodriguez writes “There is something unsettling about immigrants because...they chatter incomprehensibly, and get in everyone's way. Immigrants seem to be...
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...Licensed to: iChapters User Licensed to: iChapters User 6e FIFTH EDITION COMMUNICATION in Our Lives LINEBERGER DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES CAROLINE H. AND THOMAS S. ROYSTER DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF GRADUATE EDUCATION THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL Australia . Brazil . C anada . M exico . Singap ore . Spain . Uniited Kingdom . United States Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. Licensed to: iChapters User This is an electronic version of the print textbook. Due to electronic rights restrictions, some third party content may be suppressed. Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. The publisher reserves the right to remove content from this title at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. For valuable information on pricing, previous editions, changes to current editions, and alternate formats, please visit www.cengage.com/highered to search by ISBN#, author, title, or keyword for materials in your areas of interest. ...
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