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David Alvarado

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Women have had a hard and difficult past especially those who are minorities. In Gloria Anzaldin “The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master House”  Anzaldin tries to give us a message by saying that minority groups should start to overcome the fears of being or stepping up. In the passage she is trying to let minorities know that masters which are often white people are the owners of everything. White men rule and are in charge of the place they decide how far can minorities expand or grow since minorities don’t work together to overcome or to be equally treated as the white. In the passage she is basically saying that since minorities don’t stand they are for it oppressed by their master. Meaning in a way that minorities which are the tools are forced to live based on what they have and are not allowed to become better and overcome their master. Minorities have to adopt to what they have and make a living out of it without having the opportunity to grow but only the opportunity to survive and live to what they are expected to live not in what they have in mind but learning to live in what they have. In the readings the tools are minorities and the masters are white men. The title alone says tools will never destroy the master meaning that minorities don’t have a chance against white , but we should try to break the limits that are imposed by white in order to flourish. Minorities are always the whites workers and she says minorities are cleaning their houses, just like “The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master House” in “  And When You Leave, You Take Your Pictures With You” it says that minorities are always under the white oppression they are always working for them it mentions lots of stereotypes like saying black always have a bandana. He says that white have minorities working for them without taking consideration on whether or not they are happy whit what they are getting even tough they look happy on picture. On both passages minorities are working for the white the white being the masters and the minorities being their tools with no option but to live with what is provided since there is no space or chance to improve their living opportunities. On both passages minorities have to learn to survive and live under white rules. In the reading of “ How to tame a wild Tongue” she is talking about a dentist who is trying to make her accent; Mexican accent disappear. She says that it is not possible to hide your background in the way you speak. Most people from the borders have an accent. She says that many people are treated different because they have an accent. If you have an accent you are not allow to talk because there is a chance you are going to be discriminated. She says in a closed moth no flies come in, meaning that it is better to stay quiet and live the way you are living in a place were you cannot express because there is always the fear of being discriminated for the way you speak. Trying to give the accent a positive tough it is always a problem with it. All three passages give and explain how being from a minority group either for having a different color, and a different accent you are always discriminated by the white. All three also try to convey us to stand together and learn to survive with what we are given since maybe one day we will break the norms and overcome discrimination.