"Something About The Subject Makes It Hard to Name"
Yamato

Quotes

"The new mestiza copes by developing a tolerance for contradictions and tolerance for ambiguity. She learns to be an Indian in Mexican culture to be Mexican from an Anglo point of view."

This quote is stating that this woman is learning how to be a person from multiple heritages. She has composition of personality that is made of Indian, Mexican, and Anglo descent, her personality is not made of one descent. It has become such a contradiction because almost everyone on this planet did not come from one descent. My mom is part Italian, Irish, and American while my dad is part German and American so they are living a different life as these cultures differ. The way food is loved is very different in Italy and Ireland. However, it is not bad. All of these complexities are a good thing.

For example, think of all the people who traveled to Ellis Island to make a new start in life. They came from other countries so right away your heritage will not be a 100% the same, young person who traveled to Ellis Island may meet and marry someone once in america who is of different descent. That is not a taboo thing to do, variety is important as it makes the world go round.

"They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't, we haven't. The dominant while culture is killing us slowly with its ignorance."

America was meant to be country where all nationalities were accepted and brought into the melting pot of many cultures and hertiatges. Despite that, the idea of a melting pot has not been encouraged as a positive idea while co existing with other clutures. This is because the white culture is ignorant. Ignorant means to be unaware, uneducated about a certain topic. The reality of America is more like a salad, what is not accepted or understood can be taken out like a piece of carrot or cucumber.

Ignorance can have multiple meanings as well. It can mean that someone is illiterate, if they are unaware of how to read and write they will miss out on how certain races are treated in school when children learn about their history. It could also stand for shallowness, someone without any care for the topic at hand. There may be some white people to this day that may not care for the rights and privileges of black people. They could be more focused on what is directly affecting them instead.



"Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple , often opposing messages. The coming together of two self consistent but habitually incompatible frames of reference causes a cultural collision."

This is stating that the occurrence of more than one culture within a family is very common, and with that there are opposing messages seen that relates to the multiple cultures. These messages that are sent due to multiple cultures lead to a collision of cultures. This is not fair to anyone in any cultural situation. For example, look at the percentage of interracial families. Someone cannot be blamed for marrying someone of a different culture because culture should not come into play in marriage as much as it can. 58% of American Indians  married someone outside their culture, 28%of Asians chose to marry someone from a different culture, and 19% of the black community are married to another who is not of African American descent. Culture should not affect our world as much as it does, it is an important part of our life. Despite that we need to look at the group of people who seem different as human beings.

Final Thoughts: This brings up the question of acceptance, are we as a country inviting people with welcoming arms into this country? It is funny because America is considered the land of free, where all can make a life for themselves. How can we allow people that if we are not being accepting of them.