Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings

Melvin Richardson Professor Shana smith English 112 (D22P) March 21, 2013 Machin Rifamos (The Rise of Br sustain America An argument analyze by Melvin Richardson) Resistance is futile is a resounding statement premier(prenominal) exclaimed by the alien persist called the Borg in the Gene Roddenberry long racetrack television series Star Trek. Why do you resist? Asked the Borg commander, Ryker replies I handle my species the way it is Borg commander counters with, We only wish to raise fictitious character of life for all species.This is the last thing you heard before your material body was assimilated and your unique cultural and biological essences absorbed. If you have heard or see this statement before, its beca uptake it has been the theme of White America since its inception and so has appropriating and assimilating husbandrys, with racism, secernate warfare, and loss of ethnic personal identity as ill-omened by-products. The Xicano (Chicano) was able to evolve and retain their cultural identity and ethnicity by creating a border dialect or language (a Patois) which supports the view of the es opineist Gloria Anzalduas How to Tame a Wild Tongue. This dialect is viewed as sub-cultured jargon in their homeland (Mexico) where Standard Mexican Spanish is spoken and the Working come apart English is demanded by their adopted host north of the border, America. Ultimately, the appropriation and absorption of borderland Mexicans (Hispanic Americans) did not occur as did the Native American Indians or the African Americans that occupy the rest of the nation. However, these Hispanic Americans, who are considered second class in their native home (Mexico) and 3rd class by the U. S.For intake many years use of the Spanish language declined in the Chicano tribe because of the immigration of Anglo-Americans and the brutal efforts of the U. S. imperialists to eradicate the Spanish language. Further analysis reveals, the affiliation between language and identity with respect to community cohesiveness effects self- awareness. The focus of Gloria Anzalduas essay, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, focuses on the opinion of losing an accent or native language to conform to the current environment. Anzalduas essay describe what it was for her, living in a English dissertation nvironment, and not being an Anglo, combined with speaking Xicano Spanish and not sure Spanish. Many Xicano parents did not pass the Spanish language on to their children, generally because upward mobility in America is directly connected to proper use of the Queens English with all its proper enunciations and cultural rightnesss. As substantiated in her piece she stated, being caught speaking Spanish at recessthat was good for three licks on the knuckles with a nifty ruler and being sent to the corner of the classroom for talking blanket to the Anglo teacher when all I was trying to do was tell her how to read my name.The Anglo teacher said, If you want to be A merican, speak American, if you dont manage it, and go back to Mexico where you belong. However by contrast, now this trend is reversing itself with the upraise of Hispanic Americans, both born in the U. S. and the ones that were able to acquire U. S. citizenship. At one time, it seemed that the English language would replace Spanish as the reciprocal language of the Xicano Nation, this no longer appears likely. Anzaldua is arguing for the ways in which identity is intertwined with the way we speak and for the ways in which people can be made to feel ashamed of their own tongues.People no matter what race of culture needs a group of like kinds in which to mark their proud ethnicities and heritages. This tendency for oneness or sameness is demonstrated in an article published in the Colorado Gazette A unused Era in Race Relations? Real life says not so much. William King, professor of Afro-American Studies of the University of Colorado-Boulder, insist(s) its unsloped human nat ure to seek out people who look like them he insists theres more to it blacks and other minorities segregate themselves only because society has taught them that mathematical group together is the only way to stay safe.In support of this argument I contend that this feeling of being ashamed of ones own native tongue is nothing less than marginalization, in order to take away the labor of the Hispanic Americans to keep them from assimilating into the American mainstream. In the 1960s American society was influenced by exploits that were fighting the political and social injustices of the time. The Xicano movement was no exception. During this time there were visible signs of No Dogs or Mexicans Allowed as well as a general sentiment of segregation ground on race and economic class.As the movement started to progress in the Xicano (Hispanic) community, identifying with the terminal figure Chicano became widely accepted. This is an evolutionary moment of the language. Although nat ive Mexicans believe that the word Chicano is an ill-favored term to use when identifying ones cultural background. To them, Chicano signifies a frown class of the Mexican. The term Chicano seemed to spring up out of very devoid areas of the Mexican-American neighborhoods known as Barrios.Mexicans, as well as US culture connected the word Chicano with another term called Pachuco or Cholo. Despite the forbid connotations and images the term sparks up youth and others (gang members) embrace being Cholo, to call oneself a child of the Mexica. In support of the position taken by Senora Gloria Anzaldua, I titled my piece Machin Rifamos which means High achieving and We Rule. Xicano dialect is an evolutionary event. With the rise of Hispanic Americans in every walk of American life, the capital of Arizona effect is occurring.William Blaine Richardson, governor of New Mexico Sonya Sotomayor Supreme Court Judge Linda T. Sanchez U. S. congresswoman with individuals that not only speak Xicano need the support of this new in good order evolved group of Americans and potential Americans . The evidence is irreversible and ongoing. By the end of this century, Spanish speakers will comprise the biggest minority group in the U. S. , and the America that has been, learned by effortless assimilating, appropriating cultures and native people, miss the boat this time.