POST #3

Quote #1



Page #111

"Trying to track down the origins of the quinceanera tradition as a little playing that old party game, telephone."



Well in this quote it shows that even though we have a good amount of people having quinceaneras it is so hard to find people who kepp the traditions. It was hard for me to understand why if people have such a sacred tradition why ruin and turn it into like one of those sweet sixteens. This has to do with the book a lot because the narator is looking for other quinceaneras to go to and learn about.



This quote has to do with me because I am part Cherokee and Irish and I have no idea about either of those cultures. So for me I would want to learn more about my culture. I would like to eat Irish food just not there preportions.



Question #1



What does it mean exactly when a person leaves there culture but it is still heavily presented with other fqamily members?





Quote #2



page 118

"So, quinceaneras, beware! Latinos beware! We might end up preforming our ethnicity in costumes made in the mainstream market."



To me this quote ment a lot because it says that its saying more and more people are just giving up on having to wear the dresses and when some one wants to buy a really good one it will be poorly made and not in a really good place to get them from. It also shows that people of there kind dont have much money to even start with to make them.



The connection that I have to this is that I might not have a lot of money (inclideing my parents) but i do understand what it is like for the girls who dont have anough money to buy everything that they desire. Some girls at our school get pampered, get there hair done, and you know what I dont and I am just proud not have that stuff. So to me I think that those girls who have lots of money and can spend it on what ever they want.

Question #2

What is the mainstreet market?

POST #2

Quote #1

Page 57
"The strategy of women's intuition os to lead o women,s life... away from the sociopolitical arena, introducing her to the real or imagined splendors of the cosmos instead."

This quote basically is talking about the girls and how they dont know much about being a women and after they have there ceramony they will learn these things. They will learn only about household wife stuff and not about all the political stuff. Also it shows that this girl is ready to take care of her own child.
The character has to have a lot of potentioal in order to start her own family. She is actually the opposit of me because I would not be ready to start my family untill after I get out of college. When you turn 15 in a Quinceanera in a Spanish country then they can go out to clubs, get married, wear make up, and even shave their legs.

What exactly does intuition mean?

THE ART MUSEUM

The Art Museum
The photo I found to be the most interesting was called “Oktoberfest, Chicago, 1996” The farthest to the right is an old women and she is hugging a young boy. More towards the middle there is a group of four people and they are holding hands and dancing in a circle. In the far back there is a crowd and some other people dancing. It makes it seem almost like it is a dance floor in the middle of a crowd or a school dance and the prom queen and king are dancing in the middle.
The quote the I choose was “Tolerance means being accepting and helpful to others. It’s about your opinion and listening to those of others. Tolerance is about justice. Tolerance is about being a good American in a free country.”
To: Abeyunde, Nigeria
From between cultures
I chose this because I often have a hard time with accepting and tolerating other people. I chose it because fits me and what I should do as an American. We shouldn’t not opinionate upon anyone else until we know them. It spoke to me in many different ways. When I first glanced at I saw the words Tolerance. Opinions, and America. I knew that I should read it.
I chose the essay called “Living in this new world.” The author kept saying that his place that he lived was beautiful but there were so many bad things happening. It tells me that people want to immigrate to America because their countries are disgusting places where no one should live. It told me that his family was poor and had barely only enough money to live. They did not do fun stuff, but they all did get there degrees and went to work.

Jewery

JEWRY
In 1654, 23 Jewish people came from brazil. Many different Jewish people are famous such as Albert Einstein. The Jews are fighting for equality in America from 1654 to 1776. The Jews were not allowed to publicly call them selves Jews. Even though it was against there first amendment rights they were still not allowed to do so. Thomas Jefferson wrote many letters in order to help fix that situation. Many Jews were in war (the civil war) to fight for there freedom in America. The first synagogue in America was in Boston. All people who immigrated from had struggled. A large amount of them to America, some went to south America and central. The Nazi’s started making bad actions against the Jews. The KKK also took part in this. They often struggled from freedom and security in America. Martin Luther King understood the difficulty that the Jews had in America. For the Jews in America there are many different types of religions and rituals. They are not only Jewish they have American religions in theirs. For example they have menorahs that have the statue of liberty as the candle holders. In the true Jewish religion the Jews can not eat certain types of food. These certain Jews can only eat from the first rib and up on a cow. When they buy the meat it can not have any blood on it. It takes seven years to become a person who slaughters the cows. It is considered un kosher. Kosher is a type of way that they prepare the food. They can not eat any pork what so ever. They can not have any dairy anywhere near there meat. They often have two refrigerators one for dairy products and another for meat. When they eat they have to have two plated for their meat and dairy and they have to use two different forks. They can not have a hamburger with cheese. When Jewish people can to America some families did not want there kids to learn any English. Jewish people do not pray in English they only pray in Hebrew. Many years back they had a large boycott for the kosher meat. The jews were very upset they did not slaughter the cow correctly. The Jews have had all kinds of artists. Dr. Seuss has also published some of his books in Hebrew. In the past Jews had to have their own major league baseball team. They have some famous major players. In a Jewish family the mother is the most important. Jewish girls have often been models or been miss America in a miss America pageant. The Jewish culture is always involved in their kids education. After the war ended the Jews had no where to go. They had no place and they could not go back to there home countries. The Jewish community had no exceptions for people who are mean disgusting people. A man named Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegal was a very bad man, but he was the founder of Las Vegas. A Jew and his wife started an American Red Cross.

Once upon a Quinceanera

Quote #1



page # 26

" Another decade of mixing and politicizing, and by the eighties we ourselves began to claim that that's who we are. And although so took issues with the name and preffered calling themselves "Latinos" instead of "Hispanics," the bureaucratic brainstorm had turned into a reality: we had become La Raza, one people."



This quote explains that when they first came to America they were all scared and unsuficiant. But after a while they became stuck up and started getting technical with what they were calling each other. The narator was so surprised to hear what they all think about when they have there Quinseanera and how it reminds them of there homelands.

Well I am somewhat connected to this quote because when I go to like Arizona they call me some weaird names because I am not from there they think that I am all rich and have lots of stuff. When in reality I am just like them but I live and are from somewere else.



Why do you think that they fell like they have to call themselves something else to make them feel recognized?





Quote #2



"Quinceanera dreses form the backdrop of Diane Gonzales Bertrands sweet fifteen, as the protagonist is not Stephanie, the quinceanera, but Rita, a seamstree who make quinceanera dresses."



I fell that this quote has a lot of meaning because it is saying even though there are not a lot of quinceaneras going on in America we still need someone to make dresses. And that someone is Rita. Even though she does not have a lot of constomers she always has her hands full with a dress. She fells she has to be delicate. Rita is improtant to this story because if she did not immagrate from where she came from some girls would not have there dresses made.

It connects to me because if my great great gradfather and grandmother did not come here from Ireland I Would not be here. I probably would not have even been thought of. I kind of connect to the character Rita because she was esnt to America for a reason and she has fofilled that reason. Which was making those dresses.



Do you think that Rita will show someone else how to sew the dresses and they will take over her spot?

IMMAGRATION
In my own words an immigrant is someone who is born in one country and moves to another. People (the immigrants) often immigrate to America from Europe and other places like Mexico and Australia. But if you look at reality people, who live in America at least have someone in there family who has immigrated from another place, because that is what America is made up of, different cultures. My connection to immigration is my great grandparents (my maternal grandfather’s parents) who came from Ireland in 1906. Which makes me one-fourth Irish. Unfortunately they are both deceased. At my moms work there is a person she works with and he is from Brazil. He immigrated from there a long while ago. And also my friend Kimberly from HTM who came from Columbia. I feel that so many immigrants come to the United States because we have freedom like no other country, and in most other countries people don’t have as much opportunity as we do. In other countries their freedom means like being able to earn maybe a dollar a day and sometimes less. When people come from other places they try to do other things in order to make money and live. Many of them send money back to their families they left behind. For example when people come from Greece they often open up Greek restaurants. And when people come from other places they continue their culture, so we have a new restaurant or a store that is made up of their country and what they believe in.