encounter What we meant by culture and culture encounter? When we think of the sense of culture, first thing comes to our mind is humans history and how humans lived their life since thousands of years. Culture means the human achievements and the different ways of living, thinking and interaction of a group of people in various countries. The culture linked with human and consequently the concept of culture encounter is the social relations and interaction between different countries. We have two main type of culture encounter. In culture encounter the exchange of cultures, ideas and Arts can be peacefully or by controversies, wars and colonization. Whether in fictional or real stories the function of culture encounter …show more content…
She born in Los Angeles in 1970 and speak only Spanish. Her parents hoped return to Cuba so they did not teach Ana speak English until she went to school and learned English language. She lived the pain of Cubans exiles living at Miami where it became a city of exiles because of the revolution. Due of migration circumstances Ana became aware of the sense of immigrants because she is one of them. She lived the experience of cultural encounter and linguistic encounter in her real life. The author displays the cultural encounter through a series of short stories about Cubans immigrants including the story being discussed in this topic. In this story also the protagonist Maximo here is aware of cultural encounter because he came from different place, culture and language. He tried to interact with American culture but he faced difficulties because everything around him remembered him to the past. He remembered his life in Cuba with his wife and how he was a professor at the university, but when he comes back to reality and how he loss everything and only sat at a park played domino. Maximo’s words proves to us that he is aware of cultural encounter. Here he compared between the past and the present and how he lost everything. So this cultural encounter had a negative impact on him and he tried to hide his feeling by telling jokes to his friend. He used jokes …show more content…
The park where the four old men gathering every morning to play domino. This game is a classic game played traditionally by Cubans in their home. The park reminded the immigrants in their homes, where it has become a famous place for Cuban exiles and it’s known as little Havana proportion of Havana in Cuba. The location of the park near the Mexico Gulf has become make it a place for memories of the homeland for Cubans. We also observe that the story began by mentioning the banyan tree and the wind in moved the leaves. What is the symbolism of banyan tree here? There are many of ancient literature used the banyan tree as a symbol of immortality and others as the true meaning of life but here it has different significant. The banyan tree, sunrise and sunset, all these things remind Maximo in his sadness and the pain inside him. Christmas holiday has a strong influence on Maximo which return him to his days in Cuba. This special occasion remembered him in the correlation of his family and the meeting with friends where he had lose in Miami. All these things made him feel nostalgic and hankering for home ground and sadness and failure because of losing his life in Cuba. This cultural encounter had a big impact on him because it is in a place that is similar to his residence place in Cuba and if it was in another place its impact will be less from
Mona Ruiz was raised in the middle class neighborhoods of central Santa Ana in a household of two parents, and seven siblings. Although Ruiz had family members affiliated with gangs, her father despised gang members. Both of them would have talks about how proud he’d be if she furthered her education and became a police officer. He had said to her and her sisters, “gangs promise only shame and danger for a young girl.” (Ruiz 27).
Nora Rodriguez is a heroine because she is helpful. In the article, titled " Honduran Enterpreneur helps Central Americans Immigrants Gain Legal Status in Mexico" by Mayela Sanchez, the author states that " A Honduran women runs a small business helping Central Americans with their immigrationpaperwork. She charges customers one-quarter of the price as other people do. " This means that Nora stands up for Central Americans by helping them with thier paperwork to become a Mexican Citzen. Nora charges less then others well because she have been in the same place before and understands the struggle of being a Central American.
San Lucar - 5-year-old Isabella Rodriguez was busy collecting seashells when she spotted what she believed was something that was ashore. So she decided to see what or who it was and was shocked to see that it was her father; 34-year-old Antonio Rodriguez lying on the shore of Playa de La Jara. Upon making this discovery; she alerted her mother; Valentina Rodriguez who called an ambulance and had him rushed to the hospital. Valentina said; “These past few weeks have been very convoluted for us. We always hoped that he’d return to us…
Margarita Engle grew up in Los Angeles. She developed a attachment for her mother's country. She visited her family in Cuba during the summers. She now lives in Central California. Margarita Engle shined light on complicated Cuban history through her poetry book The Surrender Tree.
19 years ago today in a Hispanic house hold two parents three siblings and the world to conquer. Screaming, laughing, learning and growing molded this one young lady to overcome all statics .Factors such as birthplace, extracurricular activities and the simple thing she couldn’t control, her origin were deciding factors for where she is present day. New York, the city that never sleeps, a city diverse in all aspects of life, the city where it all started. 18 years growing up in Harlem wasn’t all it was cracked up to be especially for a young Hispanic female. Being surrounded with drugs, violence and public disobedience were some of the easiest of distractions that I encountered every day.
Although when she wrote this it did not connect to many reader but now that immigration is at its highest peak is is bound to be connected to many immigrants as well as Mexican-Americans. Anzaldua was frowned upon due to her lack of english, and they wanted to obliterate her native language which was spanish. Now, many believe that english is the language all should know, but in reality it's not. A person's native language is a language that should stay with them forever. This native language is what makes them who they are, it helps develop
In this paper I will discuss my reaction to researching cultures that are different than my own. For this experience, I visited The Arkansas Arts Center where there is currently an exhibit titled "Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art". This exhibit includes a six week film series that focuses on the history of Latino Americans. I attended the first film on Sunday, October 18, 2015. The film was titled "Foreigners in their Own Land, 1565-1880".
Being a Cuban immigrant has provided me with a unique bicultural perspective that has become my support system in the United States. For the first eleven years of my life, my culture was composed of music and dancing. In every street corner of my hometown, there was a group of seniors playing domino and close by, their grandchildren dancing to the Salsa music being played on the radio to pass the time. The hardships created by the communist regime are overshadowed by memories of my mother teaching me how to sew and by my paternal grandmother teaching me how to enjoy a strong Cuban coffee. Those precious memories of home became a source of pain when I migrated to the United States.
This piece of figurative language has a big impact on the text because it is pretty much saying that the moments that happened in the camp made him lose that connection with his god, soul and made him feel like his dreams were never going to happen cause he was just sitting in that camp doing labor for several months. This affects the reader cause this shows more of how the camp really
She was then raised in El Paso, Texas. As a child, she began kindergarten where she spoke the only language she knew, which was Spanish. She soon discovered that her language only brought her trouble from her teachers and administrators. Being
Cofer addresses the cultural barriers and challenges that Latinos experience through emotional appeal, anecdotal imagery, parallelism and the use of effective periodic sentences. In her article, Cofer assesses the difficult cultural hurdles of Latin Americans with emotional appeal. She provides insight on her cultural barriers by first conveying the way she had to dress and her struggle, as it shows in this piece of text, “That morning I had organized… which to base my decision” (Cofer 5). This poignancy works to stress an agonizing feeling of uncertainty and restraint towards the author.
José Martí was a brilliant 19th century writer, poet, political and revolutionary leader, and Cuban intellectual; however, above all else, José Martí was a proud Cuban citizen. Though born to two Spanish parents, Martí never waivered in his identity as a son of Cuba, and he would spend—and eventually give—his life fighting for the cause of Cuban independence. Martí loved his native country, and desired freedom and pride for all Cubans. Never was this more apparent, than in his poem, “Versos Sencillos” (Excerpts from Simple Verses). The resistance from oppression infused with Cuban patriotism prevalent in this piece, is central to Marti’s message and to the Cuban Revolution as a whole.
In Julia Alvarez’s Antojos, is about a young Dominican American women named Yolanda who is visiting her homeland and family in search of her antojos or cravings which leads her to not only cultural confrontation between American and Dominican ways but being able to reconnect with her native identity. Yolanda was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in America. She travels back to her homeland for the first time in seven years with a possibility of staying permanently and “…live here on her own terms” (Alvarez 1304). Although her extended family welcomes her, her aunts and cousins openly criticizes her appearance and American ways, as she silently critiques theirs. Yolanda has difficultly speaking Spanish, stumbling over her words and
The leaves on the tree represent the happiness Luis could be feeling. Although it would be nearly impossible for him to joyful during the funeral, now he can be full again, just like the tree was bare then, but now filled with leaves. This points to a slightly different theme than before; one regarding releasing one’s past pain and the benefit of moving on.
A culture, by definition, is a set of shared beliefs within a society; learning how to interact with people from different cultures is important in order to communicate and work with each other. It helps us become understanding of one another and widens our perspective of what the world has to offer. To be able to cross cultural communicate with others, the first step is to be aware that every culture is complex and has its differences. While traveling to new countries and trying to understand each other, there is a large possibility of miscommunication, which can come in the form of misinterpreting messages or body language; therefore, it is crucial to keep an open mind whilst communicating. There are multitudes of factors in various cultures that play a role in decision making, so being aware of the expectations that are influenced by someone’s culture will help you understand their choices.