MLO 3: SECONDARY CULTURE
3.1 Students describe concepts of culture and use that understanding in their comparison of the target culture with the second culture.
3.2 Students will analyze and make connections among the ways of thinking and perspectives, behavioral practices and cultural products of a second culture.
SPAN 365: The Chicano Novel
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Reflective Narrative
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3.1 In Spanish 365: The Chicano Novel we analyze the works of impactful and powerful Chicano Novelists. This course was taught by Donald Urioste, head of the Spanish department as well as social activist for Chicano rights prior to his career here at CSUMB. His knowledge on the topic was vast and it was a very eye opening course. In it I learned the struggle of the Chicano people in America and what they go through via literature and documentary.
I learned that many Chicano people would come to the United States to seek refuge and opportunity but what they face in order to change their lives can be truly horrible. Though these in some cases are dramatizations there is proof that many of these stories are almost biographical in nature. In many cases it is one person from the family that goes out to the United States or does the majority of the work that provides the family with food shelter and funds.
3.2I find that fairly reminiscent of the structure of the Japanese household with Japanese Business men and women becoming so busy that they hardly have time to be around their families but they do support them with the funds they acquire.
In the novel Pocho the protagonist has a close friend who is Japanese and they discuss the issues they both have in this society as the children of immigrants and people of color. It also takes place during the times of entrainment camps and visually shows the struggle throughout the book.
Where they differ is Japanese people don't emphasis religion like Chicano/ Mexican Americans do. In the book Pocho which is almost a biographical work as a child he is misunderstood by religious figures and told that he would die as a small child. While in Japan I realized that the majority of people that lived there, while there are many shrines they do not hold any specific religious ideas or faith in mind on a daily basis.
The last thing I realized that was similar between the two cultures was found in the food. In the books "House on mango street" and "Pocho" they talk about and display certain aspects of their food culture and how certain foods are very important to them. I feel that the same can be said about Japanese foods especially considering Bento Box and Burritos.
Below you can find a cricial analysis done for Chicano Novels
3.2 Students will analyze and make connections among the ways of thinking and perspectives, behavioral practices and cultural products of a second culture.
SPAN 365: The Chicano Novel
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Reflective Narrative
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3.1 In Spanish 365: The Chicano Novel we analyze the works of impactful and powerful Chicano Novelists. This course was taught by Donald Urioste, head of the Spanish department as well as social activist for Chicano rights prior to his career here at CSUMB. His knowledge on the topic was vast and it was a very eye opening course. In it I learned the struggle of the Chicano people in America and what they go through via literature and documentary.
I learned that many Chicano people would come to the United States to seek refuge and opportunity but what they face in order to change their lives can be truly horrible. Though these in some cases are dramatizations there is proof that many of these stories are almost biographical in nature. In many cases it is one person from the family that goes out to the United States or does the majority of the work that provides the family with food shelter and funds.
3.2I find that fairly reminiscent of the structure of the Japanese household with Japanese Business men and women becoming so busy that they hardly have time to be around their families but they do support them with the funds they acquire.
In the novel Pocho the protagonist has a close friend who is Japanese and they discuss the issues they both have in this society as the children of immigrants and people of color. It also takes place during the times of entrainment camps and visually shows the struggle throughout the book.
Where they differ is Japanese people don't emphasis religion like Chicano/ Mexican Americans do. In the book Pocho which is almost a biographical work as a child he is misunderstood by religious figures and told that he would die as a small child. While in Japan I realized that the majority of people that lived there, while there are many shrines they do not hold any specific religious ideas or faith in mind on a daily basis.
The last thing I realized that was similar between the two cultures was found in the food. In the books "House on mango street" and "Pocho" they talk about and display certain aspects of their food culture and how certain foods are very important to them. I feel that the same can be said about Japanese foods especially considering Bento Box and Burritos.
Below you can find a cricial analysis done for Chicano Novels
chicano_critical_analysis.docx |