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Compare and Contrast - Coggle Diagram
Compare and Contrast
Two stories of two different types of immigrants, both rejected by America in different ways.
Anzaldua gave us a brief history of how these borderlands came to be and then explained the difficulty and pain Mexicans entering the borderlands endure.
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Mother Tongue: Mother speaks a "broken" English because she is Chinese. Learned English at an old age when she relocated. People (probably white people but just Americans in general) look down on her, disregard her, and overall treat her worse because of her broken English.
Why? The reason is not explicitly stated. We are given hints though that we can infer from. When the narrator speaks to the nurses, stockbroker, etc, she is given far more respect. They are the same race- both Chinese. But the girl is Chinese American so she speaks perfect English. So, she's respected and listened to.
Narrator serves as the middle woman. (Maybe like a bordertown) between Americans and Chinese people.
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"The only "legitimate" inhabitants are those in power, the whites and those who align themselves with whites."
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I sense a contempt for white people or just Americans in general. "The Gringos, locked into the fiction of white superiority." (pg7)
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"this is her home, this thin edge of barbwire" - that last paragraph is a brutal read, wow."
It's kinda saying "look at the disaster that she has to endure constantly. She's locked in (barbwire is to prevent one from leaving/entering)and it's dangerous/
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