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'Se Habla Espanol By Tanya Barrientos An Analytical Summary Tre A. Williams Kimberly Muirhead side of meat 115 11/14/2012 Tanya maria Barrientos, a journalist by vocation and an upcoming author is Guatemalan by put up. However she has been living in the States for almost fifty years later on coming from her native country at the age of three. The try out ‘Se Habla Espanol’ is a poignant depiction of the search for her mislay identity that she desperately tried to freeze in her formative years.Her aversion towards her hit the hayledge ethnicity can be summarized by this adduce of hers, â€Å"when I was sixteen, I told my father how very much I scornd being called Mexican- non whole because I wasnt, but also because the war cry was hurled as an insult” (Page 59). The most meaning(a) point of the essay is the difficulty the immigrants nerve while growing up in a land, which is not their by birth as how they are inherently misfit in the society, yet t hey desperately want to aggregate into it by forgetting their language and ignoring their last names.Barrientos starts the essay the quite aptly by delineation her child hood days as how her parents consciously forgot their declare culture to take in their kids in the alien ‘gringo’ culture. Although they themselves talked to each new(prenominal) in Spanish, yet they talked to their kids in English, harbour the American culture within the put forward and kept their kids as far by as possible from other Latin Americans and Latin American Culture. The result was lamentable skinned kids who consider themselves white and hate to be called Latin American or Mexican.Barrientos’ mental state in her growing years can be find out by these words, â€Å"I enjoyed looking into the faces of Hispanic store clerks and waitresses and, yes, even our maid, and saying ‘yo no hablo espanol’. It made me come up superior. It made me feel American. It made me f eel white” (Page 58). The patch completely changed when Barrientos reached her 20’s. Suddenly the social conditions changed and the country woke up to recognize respective(a) cultures and ethnicities that made the United States of America that we k presently now.The culture baggage was no interminable considered a baggage now and in fact it gave uniqueness to the immigrants. Now, Barrientos tries to learn Spanish and also desperately tries to search her alienated identity while learn Spanish. However, now the unfortunate affair is that in bitchiness of trying hard in learning Spanish, she is still managed to understand and haltingly cover Spanish that makes her stick out in her own community and she can neer gel completely within her own community.The purpose of Barrientos’ writing clearly indicates the experience, the indorse generation immigrants feel, behave and communicate in the modern American society. She explains the experience of her smell an d analyzes the difficulties she had to endure throughout her life. Her audience principally is young and most of them are not white Americans like her. The exceptional thing about Barrientos’ essay is that she has written it in a very exceptional, lucid and slatternly to understand English.Thus, Se Habla Espanol is an excellent essay, which depicts and analyzes a modern day issue, which has established as a major phenomenon in today’s world. Moreover, it is very much unmistakable in America because it has always been a melting pot of varied cultures be to all over the world. References Create. (2001). ENC 1101. Corinthian. Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill. Border-Line Personalities: A sassy Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and ethnic Shifting [Paperback] Michelle Herrera Mulligan (Author), Robyn Moreno (Author) Se Habla Espanol ByTanya Barrientos rapscallion 167.\r\n'