Assimilation Richard Rodriguez and Gloria Term Paper

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We speak a patois, a forked tongue, a variation of two languages.

Chicano Spanish sprang out of the Chicanos' need to identify ourselves as a distinct people. We needed a language with which we could communicate with ourselves, a secret language. For some of us, language is a homeland closer than the Southwest -- for many Chicanos today live in the Midwest and the East."

The border language becomes a language of its own for Anzladua, and far from abandoning her roots like Rodriguez, she melds her roots successfully with her process of assimilation. She helps create an entirely different culture, born full-blown from her and her compatriots' foreheads, as Athena was from Zeus.

She does not split the two brains; rather she combines them into a wholly separate third brain and assumes control of it. She does not succumb to the white rationality; rather, she helps create a rationality belonging wholly to her people.

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The end remains the same for Rodriguez and Anzladua; they both come to terms with their heritage. However, Anzladua, through a much more violent early process, enjoys her conversion to a third culture early-on, while Rodriguez returns like the prodigal to his original culture once he finds that a complete shift to a second is simply untenable given his background and latent belief structure......

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