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Two Perspectives on Cultural Identity
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Alien
My Notes
by Pat Mora
Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural,
able to slip from “How’s life?”
to “Me’stan volviendo loca,”
able to sit in a paneled office
5 drafting memos in smooth English,
able to order in fluent Spanish
at a Mexican restaurant,
hyphenated: connected American but hyphenated,
viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic,