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Manuel Munoz Leave Your Name At The Border Summary

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Munoz states a valid point that over time Anglicization leads to the loss of identity or culture this is unavoidable unless families keep their cultures traditions intact and never lose sight of their identities. Manuel Munoz mentions in the short essay Leave Your Name at the border “when white teachers asked, what your name means?’ when what they really want to know was “What’s the English one.” (Munoz 159) with this statement Munoz brings up the normality in the non-acceptance of foreign names in the United States. This type of arrogance causing Mexican parents to anglicize their children’s names. I can definitely relate to Munoz, because I had seen numerous friends name their children common American names. Yet this is the arrogance that
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