American not-so-invisible boundaries Whether it is going to school, or just children playing in a park. Racial identity is judged as a group, part of a whole, and different. These two articles bring out the boundaries that humankind has set for anyone different than themselves. We all bleed the color red, and segregation has been a constant, yet sickening struggle this world has faced. To share the thought of how a person can be a different shade of melanin, but yet still, be fully capable of speaking the same language that you would see in the suburbs. Demonstrated in “Mericans” by Sandra Cisneros. Short poem: “In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers” by Dwight Okita. This poem demonstrates the mind being molded to the mentality of indifference at an age before senior high. Before the news was turned on to illuminate the idea that Asian Americans were a group as a whole, terrorists. Two innocent-minded girls could face this world together. Furthermore, she turned her back and accused her friend. Her response: “I didn’t know what to say. I gave her a packet of tomato seeds and asked her to plant them for me, telling her when the first tomato ripened she’d miss me.” …show more content…
To the small children who observe their abuela and observe from the article; “Blessing herself and kissing her thumb”. Running a crystal rosary between her fingers.”- “There are so many prayers and promises and thanks-be-to-God to be given in the name of the husband and the sons and the only daughter who never attend mass.” Feeling the words from the passage of sweet surrender from the grandmother, however, the feeling between the grandkids is lost between time away from the cultural practice since these children were raised in America. Grouped by one's tone of skin gives off the wrong projection of the lifestyle these individuals