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Mexican Culture By Gloria Anzaldua Summary

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Notwithstanding, many Chicanos stand up for their values and ideals to defend their own culture and spread it around the world; one example is Gloria Anzaldua. Anzaldua denies the comments of Paz and emphasizes that the Mexican culture is antique and useless. She affirms due to her rebelliousness, she was “the first in six generations to leave the valley.” p.2 a shocking declaration. In the modern world, most of the Mexican values have been dismissed and have reached a point where they are not longer apt to adapt to the new world. And although Anzaldua has a bias view against men, what is concerning is that culture permeates in many aspects of the daily life and therefore the Mexican culture is not longer functional in the modern world. For
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