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How To Tame A Wild Tongue

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We develop and integrate things differently. As humans, we learn different characteristics about ourselves, like our favorite things to do and our values. These values we hold close to our hearts can represent us as we identify with them. These values can range from interest to cultural representation and fun facts about ourselves. Cultural representation is one of the main focuses our society chooses to identify as. Gloria Anzaldua, the Autohistoria developer and writer of “How to Tame a Wild Tongue '' exposes the differences between the cultural impact Chicanos and immigrants face living in America. Gloria Anzaldua uses her essays to gain the power of our own culture, language, and identity to be our beautiful selves. Having different cultures …show more content…

fixedBorderlands La Frontera The New Mestiza '' looks into Chicano culture and the hardships they face. It illustrates to its audience the variations between culture, gender, and identity through the idea of having a border between each culture in America. Chicanos have constantly faced oppression for their nationality due to their values and ways of representing themselves. In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” Gloria Anzaldua uses her experience as a teacher teaching Chicanos and her childhood stories about growing up feeling ashamed of her own language and identity to help immigrants and Chicano cultures decolonization their language and understand the importance of their language, power, and representation surrounding …show more content…

Anzaldua expresses how being a woman in a Chicano/male-dominated community causes a sense of the disappearance of women. “In my culture, they are all words that are derogatory if applied to women- I've never heard them applied to me(Anzaldua pg35)”. Anzaldua spent her childhood hearing others call women terms that never truly applied to men. Chicano cultures continuously disrespect women whenever they do something. They treat the women in their lives horribly and cause women to feel powerless. In the interview with Gloria Anzaldua conducted by Andrea Lunsford, Anzaldua tells us the reasoning behind her activism history and where it stemmed from. Anzaldua describes how seeing the degradation of women and that pain led to her wanting to write and work for change. “This is not the way things are supposed to be. Girls' children are not supposed to be treated this way. Women are not supposed to be battered; they're not supposed to be second-class citizens. Chicanos shouldn't be treated in this way in society(Lunsford pg 276)”. Gloria Anzaldua's childhood consisted of girls being called sexist terms affecting the ways she’ll grow up. She was able to see the different ways men and women were treated while growing up causing her to want to see a change. The degradation of women socially and internally through Chicano cultures causes Anzaldua to want women in her culture to

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