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Gloria Anzaldúa, Gloria Anzaldúa, C3B6C873-6074-45BF-9AF9-FFFFFEAEA548 …
Linguistic Terrorism
Discusses the complications of being friends with others from the same culture. For example, she references the indirect competition of being the "better" Chicana.
Outlawing language rejects the natural existence of these cultures. With strong self identification with language the acceptance and the acknowledgement of these cultures are essentail to their survival
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Chicano Spanish
Within the "Chicano Spanish" section, Gloria talks about the history of the Chicano tongue and how its form has changed throughout decades up to her own modern times. She states how certain syllables and certain consonants are left out. And how the establishments of Geography from South Texas up to California have an important role in Chicano Spanish.
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Essentially, the sections illustrates how the Spanish language has been americanized over centuries. Factors that contribute to this are the environment and the people an individual is around.
The author utilizes various anecdotes to help the audience understand her situation and possibly connect to her experience as well.
Overcoming the Tradition of Silence
Having to battle the reality that her linguistic tongue was already taking a negative toll due to being a Chicana, in this section she discusses the amount of diff. forms of speaking she had to overcome.
From battling the idea of "supposedly" ruining her native tongue for speaking "Pachuco" tongue to speaking in her Chicana form and understanding the tradition Mexican Spanish. She realizes that each form of language she has faced has it's flaws. And that no matter what, in the end she understands that she feels comfortable speaking her Chicana/Pachuco tongue, regardless of what other have to say about it.
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"Vistas,” corridos, y comida: My Native Tongue
Gloria Anzaldua understands the struggles she faced. And although she had to battle against mutilple obstacles (linguistic terrorism) and/or identity crises. Gloria concludes that she is proud of the language SHE is comfortable with.
She references the struggle of how her music, culture and educational ideas were not professional or good enough for societal approval. Her art was a direct reflection of herself and her culture and it's rejection was a rejection of her existence.
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