Immigrants By Gloria Anzaldua

dolls that blink blue” (4), which can also serve as the emphasis to what those stereotypes are. The alliteration places the focus on the objects that start with “b”, making that the key letter to look at. The alliteration can also serve as a command; if the reader were to buy blonde dolls that blink brown, it would not fit into society and would cause attention to be drawn to their children. There is irony in the title “Immigrants” itself, because from the view of an immigrant, these are the norms that their children have to fit into be considered “American”. We can see this ideal being contrasted when the speaker says to “whisper in Spanish or Polish when the babies sleep” (9-10), generally saying that the babies cannot hear their own mother tongue as a “process” of being that “true American”. Gloria Anzaldua’s theory of a mixed culture offers an insight into how the Immigrants in Pat Mora have to be educated in a much more “American” style than their own culture. Anzaldua argues that “we need you to accept the fact that Chicanos are different” (107), relating to Mora’s idea that though these children are being forced to be “like” an American in

There is no difference in comparison with student and teacher, as for they are all considered equal among one another. We do not have any more slaves living with a master, and white men no longer have black men to send them to the kitchen to eat, as written in Hughes’ “I, Too”. The world today rejuvenates with Hughes’ ideas of the self acceptance and human agency. Though America still has its ups and downs, there is less of any discrimination against any race. Throughout the years, America has grown to be culturally acceptable because of the different laws as well as a more diverse nation. From my observations, other races aside from the white superiority was despised, and treated