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    innate‚ self-analysis is what defines individuals. However‚ people of the same religion‚ same ethnicity‚ or even the same hair color are subject to stereotypes. “The Myth of the Latin Woman” embodies what it is to be a Hispanic woman in America trying to find and embrace her identity while defying stereotypes. Author Judith Ortiz Cofer uses a personal narrative essay to tell the story of the life of a Hispanic girl trying to assimilate herself while still holding on to her culture and traditions. By

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    Melanie Allen Dr. Elliott EH 101 November 5‚ 2011 Facts of a Latin WomanMyth of the Latin Woman:/Just Met a Girl Named Maria‚” by Judith Ortiz Cofer tells of her personal experiences as a Latin girl growing up in a large urban city in New Jersey during the sixties. She tells of her journey maneuvering through her childhood trying to find her place in a mixed cultural world and faces many stereotypes. Cofer later learns how to take the negative comments of others and turn them in to positives

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    Mr. Ruth ENG 111; Section 4209 Stereotype: The Myth of a Latin Woman Judith Ortiz Cofer is a Puerto Rican immigrant and a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Georgia. Cofer has written many books‚ poems and essays in her career. As the author of “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”‚ she shows how society uses stereotypes to deny individualism of certain minority groups. In this essay Cofer describes the injustices that Latina women suffer

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    The Myth of the Latin Woman Judith Ortiz Cofer portrays in “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”‚ how society often stereotypes groups without a doubt. In this particular case‚ the offensive stereotype of the Latino women. I enjoyed this article and somewhat agreed with it .I think this story is little different from other story were immigrant American faces different obstacle to adjust with American culture. Cofer was not an immigrant. She was from

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    In the essay‚ “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Marìa”‚ Judith Ortiz Cofer explained that “[a]t Puerto Rican festivities‚ neither the music nor the colors we wore could be too loud”(252). Many different cultures have many different ways of dressing. For example‚ in Pakistan girls wear “shalwar

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    Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez‚ and in Isabel Allende’s‚ And of Clay we are Created‚ and The Myth of the Latin Woman: / Just Met a Girl Named Maria written

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    In "The Myth of the Latin Woman" Judith Ortiz Cofer talk about the many stereotypes people has against Hispanic women. Cofer start off telling about an experience in London‚ with a drunk man who re-enacted “Maria” from West Side Story and even though she was aggravated‚ she kept her cool although everyone around her was laughing and applauding. She go on to tell about her experiences growing up here in American. Cofer was raised in New Jersey‚ as a child she was tough her traditional culture while

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    In “Myth of the Latin Woman”‚ by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ the author points out how she has been treated by different people in different countries due to their conception of her as a Latin woman. She cites several incidents where she was viewed‚ stereotypically‚ as a woman only capable of being a housewife‚ and as a sexual object. She also argues the cross-cultural conflict Hispanics have to deal with on an everyday basis‚ in this‚ purely dominated by Caucasians‚ where cultural traditions are seeing

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    In “The Myth of the Latin Woman”‚ Judith Ortiz Cofer intends to dispel several stereotypes about Hispanic women by expressing her own personal stories and observations. She starts off by relating an experience that happened on a bus in London‚ then she goes into explaining how her parents made her home in America a microcosm of the home they used to have in Puerto Rico. She explains why Puerto Rican women dress the way they do—because they’re protected by an honor system—and goes on to relate two

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    “The Myth of the Latin Woman” The set pieces in this essay are the bus‚ the hotel lobby‚ and the boat restaurant that Judith visits throughout her journey. At the bus she is being stereotyped as nice‚ naïve but at the same time as being dumb just for being a Latina. She takes everything with a smile. Even though‚ this is done in a comic way; which doesn’t seem too harsh but still hurts her feelings because everyone is laughing at her. At the hotel lobby she feels hostile. She is seen by the man

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