Our Own Race example essay topic
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Women Studies 100 Reaction Paper#1 Base on the Reading: EN RAPPORT, IN OPPOSITION: CO BRANDO CUENTAS A LAS NUESTRAS By: Gloria Anzaldua This essay by Anzaldua is very interesting, as a Latina (Puerto Rican), I get engage in the same topic she is discussing about. I agree to most of the things she points out, about ethnicity and criticism of one another within a culture. We tend to judge people by their background even though they come from the same culture, because our "whiteness" like she says, comes out from our mouths without us knowing. I am also afraid of this, just like her, because I think this is the biggest problem that our society has. Here in the United States, where all communities are so diverse, we tend to isolate each other from one another, even from ourselves. Like she points out: " we no longer allow white women to efface us or suppress us. Now we do it to each other". But what scares me the most is that even though we are oppressing our own race, we denial our own. An example, in my own personal experience in my community, can be the one that most Puerto Ricans go through, 85% of Puerto Ricans in the island want to be, a believe to be "Americans". We tend to say that Puerto Ricans in New York are not real Puerto Ricans, for different reasons and opinions that different people has.
In conclusion, I believe that she has several options or solutions that can help us with this matter. She points out that no matter what race, ethnicity, and identity we are, as women we are all fighting for the same rights and equality. We all, no matter the start point in history, we get engage in the same situations that we all go through. She also says, and I agree with her, that carrying all this hate and all this indifference is not worth it. That we should forgive and break that "invisible white frame" and stood on the ground of our own ethnic being.
