2/8/08

Article:
Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
By: Judith Ortiz Cofer

This article was about a remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood by Cofer, who describes the powerful influence that her grandmother had on her life. From the beginning she talks about this boundary between California and New York City that they called, Los Nueva Yores, meaning the New York. This term struck me as something very interesting because it why are they considering that all of this territory should all be called the New York? I thought that Cofer should have went on more about why such a term is given to the United States, or at least that part of it. Another thing that stood out about this article was the term that she said she was called which was Gringa. The term is what they called her because of her English speaking ways. With her putting this term in the article she adds slang to it. Right along with that she uses the words cultural chameleons, which I really liked. I feel as though this phrase is very appropriate and is such a good adjective to be given to those people who have to or just do blend into other cultures. It is everyday in todays world that people have to adapt to other cultures around them whether it be any where from business to vacation. Cultural chameleon just fits so well because of how they adapt into things and blend into their new surroundings. Overall I was not very impressed with the article by Cofer I thought it did not really stick to one subject very well nor did it get much detail, however some of the points and certain parts of the article were very intriguing like mentioned above.