Ilucion: Cultural Differences Between Men And Women

In the student essay “It’s Hard Enough Being Me” written by Anna Lisa Raya, the author portrays herself as a credible source for understanding the role of identity in an educational setting. Raya then appeals to an audience of Latinos and other minorities through her emotions such as stating, “I had never questioned who I was or where I was from” (Raya 121). In the end, she resolves the life-longing issues of identity crisis and cultural shock by staying true to herself and “Soy yo and no one else…Punto” (Raya 122). The author asserts the idea of “not only experienced culture shock, but for the first time I had to define myself according to the broad term “Latina”” (Raya 121) throughout the essay. Raya then appeals to her audience through

Julia Alvarez is the narrator and author of this book, in which it describes her and her families life adjusting their immigrant ways to their new life in the United States. Alvarez has grown up with her Dominican culture but throughout the book she tries her very best to fit into

It was a wonderful eye-opening experience to interview Carmen Anton, a Spanish immigrant for this project. I learned so many things about how she arrived in American as a small child with only her sister by her side and her strive to become American. The emotional struggles of Carmen and her sister, Elena, were real and I didn’t realize it was that emotionally draining to come to a new country. Her experience showed me how hard it is to fit into a new society knowing absolutely nothing about the world she was dropped into. The fact that she flew here with her younger sister and then live for three months without her parents to guide her in this unfamiliar setting, shows me how strong and brave Carmen was at the young age of eight. When she first came, she assumed it would be like

First Generation Cultural Expectations Does your culture define who you are? Being a first generation might often come with the struggle to find one's identity. This novel shows the different struggles many first generation Mexican-Americans deal with, like finding their identity, as well as the complicated experiences of being a first generation. In the novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez, Julia the main character struggles to find her cultural identity due to her cultures expectations, and her experience with being a first generation Mexican-American. Julia’s cultural expectations play a huge role in discovering her Mexican identity while also being American.

The four young woman from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States struggle with immigration problems. Their story of struggle and resilience compares to current struggles that we have going on in today's society in forms of race, class, resistance and current protest movements.

Throughout the essay, Lugo-Lugo uses personal experiences and builds bridges with her audience to further establish emotional appeals. Carmen Lugo-Lugo is a woman of color, specifically a Latina. Latinos have become so stereotyped, that people’s portrayals and descriptions of them have become so ingrained in their minds that

Mrs. Garcia is a middle age Mexican American woman, first generation acculturation into the societal beliefs

When I started school, I added student to my list. But this doesn’t just relate to me, everyone has their own lists, their own stories. When a couple has a child they become parents, two people with similar interests become friends, and peoples who share the same background create cultures. Author Gloria Anzaldua describes how she found her identity in her essay “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. A story about both her feelings and her own story on the social and cultural difficulties Mexican immigrants faced when growing up in the southern United States. In Her essay she explains how there was 2 sides to the coin. They were ridiculed and forced to speak perfect English by their families and the US school system, but they were also antagonized by other more “pure” Mexicans for not speaking Spanish. Anzaldua says she first found her identity when she read her first book by another fellow Chicano. She says “a feeling of pure joy flashed through me…I felt like we really existed as a people” (211). Which is to say, that we as people tend to combine and live under one roof and when we find people who we can relate to, who we find a deep rooted connection, we feel pride and we rally around that feeling. “And peoples who share the same background create

The article was good, some parts can be funny, others sad, some can be shocking but overall it was a great experience to learn about different culture. The gender difference between male, female and their “gender inequality”.

Born in the generation of technology, Jae Imani is a twenty-one year old woman mixed with Spanish and black. Being the second generation born in American, Jae identifies with her Caribbean roots of Spanish and West Indian. Her mother’s family is from Barbados and her father’s family is from Panama. Jae values both the Bajan and Panamanian cultural equally. Growing up, Jae’s family socioeconomic status was the middle class. Jae’s parents worked hard to support her and her little brother. She was raised Christian, but currently does not practice any religious beliefs. However, Jae believes in God, blessings and prayers. Also, Jae is asthmatic which stopped her from dancing or doing any intense cardio. Although asthmatic, Jae does not consider asthma as a disability.

Cristina Henriquez’, The Book of Unknown Americans, folows the story of a family of immigants adjusting to their new life in the United States of America. The Rivera family finds themselves living within a comunity of other immigrants from all over South America also hoping to find a better life in a new country. This book explores the hardships and injustices each character faces while in their home country as well as withina foreign one, the United States. Themes of community, identity, globalization, and migration are prevalent throughout the book, but one that stood out most was belonging. In each chacters viewpoint, Henriquez explores their feelings of the yearning they have to belong in a community so different than the one that they are used to.

“Shenzhen: 2.08m Yuan; Beijing: 2.02m Yuan; Shanghai: 2.01m Yuan; Hangzhou: 1.78m Yuan…”[1], announced by Baidu, the largest Chinese web search provider, gives marriage costs in 2014, China. Suffering this high marriage cost for a decade, Chinese are becoming numb with these data. Statics show that marriage cost is 150 times higher than 30 years ago. Jianzhong, a RUC sociology professor says, “Increasing marriage cost shows women’s status in marriage is moving up”. It is true. Treated much fairly these decades, Chinese women show their energy and ability not only in the society, but also in marriages.

For this assignment, I interview two different males with different race and cultures. The first male is my husband, he is a white Caucasian male, who comes from a lower class family. He began by telling me that class has played a major role in his life, from living in poverty as a young child, to not being able to afford school after high school. Which led him to join the military after graduating. After the military, he didn’t have enough money to go back to school and started to look for any job that could help him better his living situation. Even though the military helped him pay for some of his college he wasn’t able to get into a four-year college and had to settle for getting an education in a community college. His will to work hard and succeed seem impossible, until he started networking with various people who would come into his job. That’s where he discovered he could apply for a job similar to the training he had in the military, which was Aviation Electrician. That same year he talked to the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) and applied for a job position as an Electrician. Through the years, being in a lower class has motivated him to be where he is today, to always have food on the table, never live in bad areas, and always have home for himself and his family. Today, through hard work he is building himself towards the average middle class and hopes that he can give his child a better life and a chance to get him the best education out

Considering all the questions in this assignment, this one sticks out to me most. I worked as a cosmetologist (hair dresser) for over six years, in which a majority of my coworkers were female. However, I also worked as a martial arts instructor for a couple years and served in the Army for four years, both of which are male dominant professions. Intuitively I noticed a vast contrast in social interactions between men and women, yet I have had difficulty pin-pointing the exact differences. Obviously, the military utilized abrasive and assertive speech, and I correlated it to professional differences rather than gender differences. However, learning the subconscious tendencies of communication polarities with men and women, and introspectively looking back at past interactions, forced me to realize it may be just as much a gender gap as a professional one.

There is much debate on the issue of personality differences between men and women, some believe that that men and women are vastly different, others only slightly and the rest firmly believe that we are no different from each other at all. A large quantity of research has been conducted in order to try to find this out. Firstly, it is imperative that gender and personality have a clear definition to prevent confusion. Gender is a psychological perception of masculinity and femininity and can be either seen as two extremes or a continuum. Personality is more difficult to define, for this essay we will be following the belief that it is stable but slightly flexible as this give space for a wider range of research and does not constrict the field in which we can research. Stereotypes also play a factor in the debate as some research has strengthened certain stereotypes and weakened others. Age also can have an impact on personality so will be mentioned slightly alongside gender roles and cultural aspects of personalities. The theories surrounding gender differences in personality will also be discussed and evaluated.