Post and explain two conflicts that he encounters. Also, watch the video clip about being Black and Latino. Post two conflicts that the people are faced with in the video.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Richard Rodriguez
Read in the Latino Literature textbook, Hunger of Memory from Richard Rodriguez (p.98).
Post and explain two conflicts that he encounters. Also, watch the video clip about being Black and Latino. Post two conflicts that the people are faced with in the video.
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Post and explain two conflicts that he encounters. Also, watch the video clip about being Black and Latino. Post two conflicts that the people are faced with in the video.
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Two Conflicts Richard Rodriguez faced:
ReplyDeleteAccepting English
Invasion of the language
Richard Rodriguez began to face these two conflicts as he began school. The public language as he stated was a big factor in his insecurity out in public. He felt scared and intimidated, mainly because it wasn't Spanish. His mind didn't want to accept it, due to how much of a negative impact it was creating inside of him. And as English began to sink into his home, he began to feel invaded. He quickly began to feel lonesome and quiet even at his house. The connection between him and his family was weakening.
In the video the two conflicts most faced:
Not the ideal Latino
Categorized
All the Dark Latinos from the video felt bad about the fact that their own people were not accepting them as Latino due to their skin color and features. Everyone thinks that the Latino should be light colored, but it is not about the way you look physically- but the culture you grow up living with. Many of the Latinos were categorized as black due to their African features.
Richard Rodriguez Two Conflicts: accepting and valuing English
ReplyDeleteHe didn't want English to take over him and change him for who he was. He felt insecure speaking and learning English being so use to Spanish. As he learned he felt comfortable with English and valued it just like Spanish. It was easier to adapt to English with his parent's encouragement. It brought a connection with the other people.
Video Conflicts: the look and judgement
An actor wouldn't have the script of a Latino just because they didn't have the look when in reality they were Latinos. Judgements were made without knowing the story behind it. Nothing is really the way it looks from the outside. We offend people judging them without knowing.
What about his family not being so close anymore?
DeleteTwo conflicts that Richard Rodriguez faced was having to accept English and changes to his family as they learned English. He was afraid of accepting and learning English, and how it would affect him. As he learned English with his family, he began to have less conversation with them while also losing the closeness between him and his family.
ReplyDeleteTwo conflicts in the video were how they were judged based on their looks and how people are based on. They were judged whether they were Latino or black by their looks and skin color. They were based on whether they were one or the other, and they were both Latino and black. Many people are judged by their looks such skin color, and they don't see them as a Latino.
Two conflicts that Richard Rodriguez encountered were that he was uncomfortable about speaking English and his family changed. He didn't feel comfortable with English and it was even less comfortable when his family began to speak it as well. He thought that being taught another language would lead to you not learning about the language your family knows. He was also afraid that speaking English would change his family. That they would no longer be close, because of the fact that they didn't speak the same language that everyone else did. Whenever they wanted to speak to someone it was usually with their family members since they were the only ones who spoke the same language. This made them stay close, but once they learned to speak English they would speak to others and less to each other. They all went their own ways and they weren't as close as before.
ReplyDeleteTwo conflicts that the people from the video encountered were that they were being judge by looks and not able to get acting roles. The people from the video look like Africans, but they're really Latinos. People would say things about them that weren't even true. They were being judge by their looks. They weren't able to get Latino roles in acting, because they either looked more African or they looked Mexican. They were also being told that they didn't know how to be Latino or Latina because they just didn't look like they were.