August 12

My culture consist of my fathers hondurian side and my mothers nicaraguan side. Both are very similar seeing as they're both in the hispanic ethnic group. What is expected of me as a Hispanic women is politeness, maturity, modesty, cleanliness, and intelligence. In Jamaica Kincaids passage I could point out various factors that related to the way I was raised. Some given examples would be Kincaids mother teaching her how to tidy up a home or how to be polite to someone even if they don't rub you the right way. One relation I can really stick to is her quote "This is how to bully a man; This is how a man bullies you" (Kincaid) which is something my mom would always teach me considering the hardships women in my family went through over choosing the wrong man. What I could infer about Kincaids mothers advice is that she wants her daughter to know how to get around the world, to not be perceived as a object, to be someone capable of maintaining herself around others and her own environment. This is the message that comes across to me as I read this and it really relates to the expectations that are brought on to me. On that note, today we learned what the actual meaning that was trying to be push in the essay by answering the questions given to us. 

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