How would the Garcia Girls answer the Essential Question for this course: "How do I inhabit and embrace the global community?" Sign your name to your writing please!
The Garcia Girls would probably work together and find a way to help out their community. I think they would say that being American is a lot tougher then living in the Dominican. I would say they would call themselves Dominicans who moved to America.
I think that although they are from the Dominican Republic, I feel that the Garcia Girls have become Americans in the global community. They lived there, went to school there, and learned the American culture.
The Garcia girls answered the Essential Question for this course because by entering the United States, they were introduced to global cultures. They chose to inhabit the comunity by adhering to the culture and changing their views. Instead of being what the women are expected of in the Dominican Republic, they act differently.
The Garcia Girls go through a cycle of hating, accepting, and later liking American culture. Once the cultural shock dissipates, the Garcia girls really have nothing to hate about American society. Because they come from a culture that doesn't respect women, they find American culture appealing and embrace it. If they had gone to Saudi Arabia, or someplace where the culture has no respect for women, they wouldn't have embraced it as fully
Joe Lorenzo. I would have to say that i believe the girls are a little bit of each culture, despite their best efforts of becoming completely one. I don= not believe that this affects them as human beings.
The Garcia Girls feel as though they are Americans with Dominican roots that are incorporated into their everyday American lives. Even though they live in America, and have adapted to American culture, they still keep their Dominican ways and can separate themselves from other Americans. Some of the girls struggle to find their cultural identity and are stuck in the middle of two cultures. They don't know whether they should be more like their parents and family, or try to fit into American society. For the most part, however, the Garcia Girls are Americanized .
Later on in the novel, when they have been in America for a few years, they feel as though they are Americans. They feel like they have more freedom, freedom to dress differently, like wear pants, but their attitudes become more loose, like the incident with the kiss between Sofia and her father. Earlier on in the novel, when the girls are fresh from the Dominican Republic or when they are visiting in the Dominican they are more up tight and have more self-control. They act differently almost the same way when their at dinner with the Fannings, and they have to be on their best manners and act like delicate young ladies. They embrace the global community, by trying to act the way others act, especially in the U.S. while in the Dominican Republic they act how they were taught to behave and allowed to.
-They think they are bicultural and it is something dear to them. They think they are dominican at heart but at this point they are American because they have just became citizens. So on the outside there American but on the inside they are Dominican.
they feel like they have a gap in their culture as they dont fully fit in to each culture. They dont feel comfortable in American or Dominican societies due to the cultural gap. - vinny
The garcia girls have two cultures that they have to understand at the same time. The garcia girls have the Dominican Republic culture and the American culture. The girls will have to know how to react in each of different communities because they all have different cultures. They would have to learn how to act in a dominican republic way in the dominican republic communities and learn how to act in a American way in the American communities.
The Garcia Girls go through an identity crisis throughout the novel. They can identify with more than one culture therefore they do not feel fully apart of one community. They embrace being apart of more than one community however they have trouble finding their comfort zone within the two communities.
They belong to two society's in the global community. I believe they feel more American then Dominican because most of their educated life was spent in America. They lived through a dictatorship in the D.R. but also were put through equally strenuous times in America, i believe this makes them sympathetic to everyone in the global community because they have experienced the same hardships. -Shane Ziegler
The Garcia Girls are more American than Dominican. They have grown up in America and learned American values. They act like most other Americans. When they go back to the Dominican Republic, they feel like the culture there is somewhat odd. Sofia with her new boyfriend adapted to the Dominican culture, and her sisters think she will loose the freedom that she had in America.
Sofia would most likely say that she would be of the Dominican culture because she pretty much assimilated into it while spending time there as punishment. She grew to love the culture and when you grow to love something then you want to keep a part of it. The Dominican side of her permeates her life in every way (more so than her sisters because they still act like American teenagers) from acting as a "good girlfriend" to acting discrete as a woman .
The rest of the girls would probably say that they are a mix of the cultures but more so say that they are of Dominican culture. When you have parents that are immigrants, you are raised in that particular culture very "strongly". I was born in the United States and I have attended American schools my whole life. But if someone were to ask me "How do I inhabit and embrace the global community?", I would respond that I am Korean. I am not sure why I would say this but I believe it is due to the fact that like the Garcia girls, I am judged by my cultural appearance and people always call me "Korean" instead of "American", which I am. This thus ingrains in my head that I'm different and "Korean". I believe the same applies to the Garcia Girls.
Because they have been raised in two different cultures, they view themselves as both Americans and Dominicans. However, depending on their capability to fit into one society, each sister possesses a greater sense of belonging to one culture over the other. For example, Yo had a hard time fitting into the American society. Her desire to go back to Domican Republic is displayed several times during the progression of the plot; her search for guavas in islands is one of them. On the other hand Sofia's case in Regular Revolution presents an atypical way to embrace the global community. As a youngest daughter, she was the least familiar with her native culture. Therefore when she was presented with a chance to get to know it, she showed a strong desire to fit in and belong in her Dominican culture, thus falling in love with Manuel and changing herself in order to satisfy him as well as other members of the family. As these examples show, the Garcia girls generally have developed different ways to embrace both cultures, one of their own, and one that has been forced upon them. They did not give up one in order to inhabit the other; they were able to combine the characteristics of both cultures to create their own unique self.
I feel that even though the Garcia girls are from the Dominican Republic they are closer to their American side because they want so much to fit in. Although as they get older you can see this change. When they were younger i don't think that they appreciated their Dominican culture as much as when they got older when they wished they had practiced their spanish more and visited their family.
Since the Garcia girls started to live in America when they were young, they have American culture instead of Dominican Republic's. Men in Dominican Republic do not respect women, so the girls tried to reject their "real" culture and embrace American culture that everyone have equal rights.
I think that they would be able to answer this question in a sense that they come from a completely different world and they're placed in a country that resembles the Dominican in no way shape or form, so they could say that they embraced both worlds, they grew up in the Dominican, and they adapted and became "American" over time. The American culture grows on them and they become it. They inhabit and embrace the American culture to the max because they do not want to go back to the Dominican culture.
Even though the Garcia Girls are Dominican, they feel American since it is the culture they grew up with and remember most from their past. They are much more American than Dominican. I am not saying they are fully American because they still keep some Dominican beliefs, I am just saying most of their beliefs and customs are American. -Paola Toro
I think that the Garcia girls would feel that they don't belong in American community, nor do they belong in the Dominican community. All the girls want to belong in both (except Sandi, who prefers Dominican culture rather than American), but struggle to do so, because they have characteristics from both cultures that don't seem to mesh well. Their parents influence them greatly, but there are some things that the girls choose not to follow. For example, in traditional Dominican culture, women are looked down upon greatly by men, and expected to be submissive. All four girls, however, are very independent and outgoing, and find that sexism to be offensive. There are instances where they wish to be more Dominican, such as when Yolanda returned to her home after many years away in America, and Sofia, who knows the least about her own culture. They embrace both cultures, and try to find a middle ground between the two.
I think that they would consider themselves dominican american. They have some moral tradition that they inherited and became used to from their parents but i think that they found that the American culture is a better one when it comes to how women act and are treated. When they were younger they obviously had trouble being accepted and fitting into american society but i think as they grew they found a good middle between the United States and their Dominican heritage. Since they have a good mutual culture they are probably more accepting to other cultures which makes a good person. Globally they take on a good culture by being open to both their natural heritage and the new american one that they were forced to be live in.
I think that they would answer that question in a way that shows that they embrace different cultures and are not afraid of change. They embrace the global community because they have adapted to the American culture very well and very easily. They have different views on different cultures, but they keep an open mind when they are making their judgements. They inhabit the global community well because they are a mix of the Dominican Republic and the United States of America. They can share two different views on a situation and do so in a highly accurate way. The most important trait that they possess in inhabiting and embracing the global community is by far their ability to adapt to new culture. Other people would not be open to a new lifestyle and that is disaterous to their life.
"How do I inhabit and embrace the global community?" The Garcia Girls would answer this question by saying that their Dominican culture and time living in America create a fusion of two totally different cultural identity. At first it is hard for them to identify themselves. One part of them sees life from a conservative Dominican point of view, while the other part is more liberal American. In fact, being caught between two cultures spelled disaster for some of the girls-- two of them were in insane asylums at one point, because they were unable to place themselves in relation to the world. Although the girls cherish their Dominican roots, I think all four of them appreciate freedom in American culture, and would see themselves as Americans.
Throughout the book, the Garcia Girls have conformed into society. They dress like normal Americans and act like Americans. Although they are of Spanish descent, they have adapted and adopted the American culture.
The girls in the Garcia Girls answer the essential question because even though the were not excited or happy about moving to a new country, the were able to adapt and become a normal American Teenager. They are able to embrace both their American and Dominican culture by blending the cultures into one indivdually unique one. I believe that their views change in the novel because they seem to be sound with who they are as adults but search to find a common ground for what culture they belong to
I think the way the Garcia Girls would answer the essential question is they would consider themselves to be more American. They were born in the Dominican Republic, but have spent much of their lives in the United States as they grew older. They still have some connections to their roots but they would considered themselves more American.
I believe that the Garcia girls inhabit and embrace the global community far more that their parents. They are able to keep some of their Dominican roots (Sofia and her speaking Spanish to the Fannings) as well as embrace the new American traditions. This allows them to understand and connect to two different cultures on a global scale, rather than an ethnocentric perspective much like that of their parents. I believe that it will benefit the girls in the future to be connected and familiar to two different ways of life and world views.
The Garcia Girls were raised in two cultures, Americna and Dominican. As they grow older they become more and more American and tend to embrace that part of their culture more so then the Domnincan part. They do still appreciate their Dominican culture as they got older, but at the same time the took it for granted and didn't practice their Spanish or their traditions. They know they are multicultural and are currently embracing their American culture more so then their Dominican culture. They still view themselves as both cultures but they tend to like American ways better then Dominican, and follow those beliefes more as they are older.
All of the girls have experience in both the Dominican and American cultures. They have began to appreciate the differences in these cultures and realize that two different ways of life exist between them. When the girls were younger, they really did not appreciate the Dominican culture at all and did not realize how much it had to offer. However, as time went on, the girls accepted both cultures as equals and accepted them as a part of their life.
The Garcia girls don't seem to fit in to either the American society or the Dominican Republic. They have been raised with both cultures though. They are able to adapt to the American culture eventually in the book. Each Garcia girl on the other hand fit in differently to the American culture. For example Yo had a harder time fitting in while Sofia had an easier time fitting in. Each daughter was able to develope their own individual balance of American culture as well as Dominican culture.
Because Garcia girls experienced Dominican culture and American culture their experience in this two different culture allows them to embrace the global community with understanding. Their hardship and streneous time in Dominican Republic and American culture embraced them with better understanding of other culture. But at the same time they do inhibit some aspects of other cultures to embrace their Dominican culture. Cultural diffusion inhibits and also embrace the global community.
I think that the Garcia girls would say that they are from the Dominican Republic however i think that they would say they are American. The girls have not spent as much time in America but act more American and less Dominican everyday. The girls would say they are a desent example of a multi-cutural family and they would say they enjoy having two main cultures.
I think the Garcia Girls inhabit the global community by being caught in the middle between American culture and their Dominican roots. At the beginning of the book, Yolanda goes back to the Dominican Republic. While she is there, her aunts point out to her various things that Dominican women can't do and the fact that Yolanda doesn't adhere to these, such as the time when she went to search for guavas by herself. In this way she had lost touch with Dominican practices, but in the same chapter she mentions that she doesn't feel at home in America and wants the Dominican to be her home. This pattern is dominant throughout the entire novel, showing that the girls had created a culture of their own, because culture is individual, consisting of the heritage they were born with and one that they adopted in America.
The Garcia girls feel that they are apart of both cultures. They are still attached to their Dominican roots, however, they are adapting to the American ways more and more everyday as they live their lives in their new home. They feel more comfortable with their American culture because this is the culture in which they were surrounded by in their lives.
The Garcia Girls inhabited global community by moving from the Dominican to the United State and they also fully embraced it at the same time. They addapted to United States culture even though they were of Dominican decent. This lets them stay in closer contact with different aspects of global community.
The Garcia Girls belong to two society's in the global community. I believe they are more accustomed to American ways because most of their schooling and educating was in America. The hardships they faced in the Dominican Republic are also important to who they are because things were difficult to get through at times. This is also the case for their life in Amercia. At certain points they faced difficult decisions and came across situations that were hard to deal with. This all adds up to The Garcia Girls being very sympathetic to people in the global community who may be going through the same situations as they faced, in which they can relate to.
Each of the Garcia Girls would answer that question differently. They all embraced the American and Dominican culture differently. Yolanda would be the girl that described her place in the global community as predominantly Dominican as she was the girl as an adult that yearned to return and live in the Dominican. All the girls embraced the American culture after facing some minor challenges. They also started to reject some parts of the Dominican culture. It was give and take. In the end, they would most likely see themselves as split between two cultures.
The Garcia girls increasingly seek independence as they grow up in order to establish distinct identities. Although Dominican family values are also important to them, they adapt their identities as Dominican Republicans to American culture. In America, they embrace the opportunity to assert their rights as women and individuals, instead of remaining as "the four girls".
The Garcia Girls grew up in two cultures, the Dominican and American. Therefore they embraced both cultures, they took things from both cultures to form their own, unique cultural identidy. The Garcia Girls used the American culture to emancipate, but on the other hand they kept some parts of their Dominician culture. The Girls have a different view on certain cultures, their views were shaped by their inter culture experiences. The Garcia Girls were struggling to find their places in America, it took them quite a while to embrace the country. Although they never felt quite comfortable livind in America, they never wanted to go back. Compared to their dad, they were able to actuallt live the modern american life. Their dad never really left the Island they used to live on. He suffered the most in the United States. The community they life in is global bacause they share thoughts and habits with both their cultures and created their own community.
the garcia girls seek independence as they grow up to establish each individual identity. They begin to adapt their identities as dominican women to the american culture. in America they embrace their individuality instead of remaining as only sisters.
because the garcia girls grew up in two completely different cultures, i feel like the girls are able to embrace the global community more than most people because they were able to embrace two cultures. the girls have access to more knowledge about how to adapt to a different culture because they already did it.
The Garcia Girls answered the essential question by making the move to America, going through the inevitable hazing, and finally fitting into the mix of cultures that is the United States of America.
I am a large part of the global community. Having lived in both the Dominican Republic and The United States. I have experienced first hand the differences in culture that exist throughout the world. I feel this experience has made it easier for me to accept the cultures of others. Should I end up somewhere halfway across the globe, I think I would be a very accepting person, who could easily assimilate. I can definitely embrace the global community easily. In terms of how I inhabit the global community, I think I inhabit it as a mindful individual. -"garcia girl"
The garcia girls are part of two cultures. They are raised Dominican but their environment is American. they encounter obstacles along the way where they think about an option that could be considered "American" and an option that could be considered "Dominican". it is quite interesting.
As the Garcia Girls grow up, they live in two separate cultures. The two are the Dominican and American. Through these two separate cultures they established and intertwine these cultures to define themselves as a person. While they are in America, they try to embrace the freedom and branch off from the set values they were given while living in the Dominican Republic.
the way that they inhabited and embraced their global community was to assimilate themselves into the different cultures. whether it be their original Dominican culture or the American culture that they were forced into they will try and adapt to that cultures way of living. They would also say that they had trouble adapting because of the way that they were treated by the inhabitants of the culture. That is how they would answer our essential culture.
The Garcia Girls inhabit and embrace both the Dominican and American culture. They are at first Dominican and they are only exposed to one culture but as they move to the United States they get to experience a whole different culture. However, how each sister inhabits each culture is completely different from one another. Although the sisters never completely embrace either culture, nevertheless they inhabit both of those cultures into theirs lives.
Each of the girls would answer that essential question with a different response; for instance each girl embraced the United States culture to a different degree because they all wanted to find different things in it. Predominantly i feel as though the Garcia Girls all sought independence from the oppressive ways of their Dominican roots in relation to a woman's place/ societal role. So as a group i feel that the girls would answer that they inhabit both both cultures they have been exposed to but primarily embrace the American ways because the American culture sees them not as "the four little Garcia girls" they see them as four individual girls.
The Garcia girls inhabit the global community by adapting to the different environment and cultures. They find and learn ways to blend and fit in. They also embrace the different cultures by using things from both Dominican and American to create their own personal identity.
The Garcia Girls would agree that it is absolutely necessary to embrace the global community as a whole. In light of the fact that they have lived in multiple different cultures, they can relate to this question. They would probably say that the best way to embrace a culture would be to be yourself, while taking note of how others act at the same time. They all made mistakes in this process, and dealt with pain and humility because of it. They would probably say they did not act in the most appropriate manner, and did not grow and inhabit as quickly as possible.
The Garcia Girls answered this course's core question "How do I inhabit and embrace the global community?" becuase they embraced the two very different cultures that they were exposed to. They embraced American culture becuase they became accustomed to the freedom that most American teenagers had (drugs and sex). They also embraced Dominican culture by following that particular culture's very different beliefs.
The Garcia Girls have to embrace their diverse cultural environments by learning to accept or reject them. In order to do this, they must experience all aspects of American culture, good and bad. After they decide whether or not they like American culture, they must decide to either inhabit it or to leave it.
The garcia girls would answer the question by stating their relationships with each family mamer. They would also include their day to day life experience as American lifestyles and going back and forth between their herritage and their American life styles.They would embrace their gobal community by celbrating their knowledge og their hispanica herritage and by helping each other embrace each other's glbaol community (Aubrey Watkins
The Garcia Girls would say that they are a major part of the global community because they are from more then one culture. They are Dominican-American and can essentially fit in both cultures. They live in America and although they are not accepted directly by the Americans, they adapt many aspects of American culture. Once they go back to the Dominican they feel as if they have lost a part of their Dominican heritage. This can be seen when Yoyo does not remember some of the words from her language. All together the Garcia Girls embrace who they are as multicultural and fit in to the global community.
The Garcia girls would say that they inhabit and embrace multiple cultures. Thus they affect the global community in multiple ways. To the American culture they bring the Dominican values they grew up with. They stress principles such as the importance of family and of staying chaste. To their Domincian culture they bring American virtues that give their lives more freedom. In both cultures they do not belong completely. When they were younger this caused a constant struggle for self identity. As they grew older, they found a place to fit in and contribute.
The Garcia Girls inhabited and embraced the global community in that they learned to accept who they are. A person cannot accept and embrace other cultures and the global community until they learn to respect their own culture. The girls were not sure where they belonged in the begining of the story because they were suddenly uprooted from the Dominican. They came to the Amercias and disliked the: food, dress, atitdue, and scnenery. They did not know why they hated it, but later learned it was not necessarily the culture they disliked, but the change. They later embraced the culture as teenagers. They embrace the freedom of no longer being opressed women of the Dominican. They embraced other- not neccesarily the postive aspects of American teenage culture, however they did acccept it. By acting and speaking around two cultures, the Dominican AND American, completely opposite in location and other aspect they have began to embrace the global community.
Once the Garcia Girls inhabit America and finally become acclimated into the society several years later after conflicts and difficulties assimilating into the culture, they consider themselves to have come from two cultures: Dominican AND American. I believe they embrace the global community with enthusiasm and optimism because they interact with American customs and conform to the society to the point that their parents become frustrated and want them to go back to the Dominican Republic. This shows how the Garcia Girls like integrating into new cultures and successfully make this aspect an important part of their heritage and culture.
Each of the Garcia Girls would say that they have lodged themselves into the American sociiety, they would give the story of how they came to America from the Dominican Repucblic, however when it comes to the question of how they each embraced the global community, they would all answer differently. Sofia and Sandi would say that they have embracedthier spanish heritage whereas the other two would say that they have totally embraced American Culture. To futher prove my response I refer to a smart student and use his words to support my own.
Tobe says "Each of the Garcia Girls would answer that question differently. They all embraced the American and Dominican culture differently. Yolanda would be the girl that described her place in the global community as predominantly Dominican as she was the girl as an adult that yearned to return and live in the Dominican. All the girls embraced the American culture after facing some minor challenges. They also started to reject some parts of the Dominican culture. It was give and take. In the end, they would most likely see themselves as split between two cultures."
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ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls would probably work together and find a way to help out their community. I think they would say that being American is a lot tougher then living in the Dominican. I would say they would call themselves Dominicans who moved to America.
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ReplyDeleteI think that although they are from the Dominican Republic, I feel that the Garcia Girls have become Americans in the global community. They lived there, went to school there, and learned the American culture.
The Garcia girls answered the Essential Question for this course because by entering the United States, they were introduced to global cultures. They chose to inhabit the comunity by adhering to the culture and changing their views. Instead of being what the women are expected of in the Dominican Republic, they act differently.
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The Garcia Girls go through a cycle of hating, accepting, and later liking American culture. Once the cultural shock dissipates, the Garcia girls really have nothing to hate about American society. Because they come from a culture that doesn't respect women, they find American culture appealing and embrace it. If they had gone to Saudi Arabia, or someplace where the culture has no respect for women, they wouldn't have embraced it as fully
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ReplyDeleteI would have to say that i believe the girls are a little bit of each culture, despite their best efforts of becoming completely one. I don= not believe that this affects them as human beings.
The Garcia Girls feel as though they are Americans with Dominican roots that are incorporated into their everyday American lives. Even though they live in America, and have adapted to American culture, they still keep their Dominican ways and can separate themselves from other Americans.
ReplyDeleteSome of the girls struggle to find their cultural identity and are stuck in the middle of two cultures. They don't know whether they should be more like their parents and family, or try to fit into American society. For the most part, however, the Garcia Girls are Americanized .
Later on in the novel, when they have been in America for a few years, they feel as though they are Americans. They feel like they have more freedom, freedom to dress differently, like wear pants, but their attitudes become more loose, like the incident with the kiss between Sofia and her father. Earlier on in the novel, when the girls are fresh from the Dominican Republic or when they are visiting in the Dominican they are more up tight and have more self-control. They act differently almost the same way when their at dinner with the Fannings, and they have to be on their best manners and act like delicate young ladies. They embrace the global community, by trying to act the way others act, especially in the U.S. while in the Dominican Republic they act how they were taught to behave and allowed to.
ReplyDelete-They think they are bicultural and it is something dear to them. They think they are dominican at heart but at this point they are American because they have just became citizens. So on the outside there American but on the inside they are Dominican.
ReplyDeletethey feel like they have a gap in their culture as they dont fully fit in to each culture. They dont feel comfortable in American or Dominican societies due to the cultural gap.
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The garcia girls have two cultures that they have to understand at the same time. The garcia girls have the Dominican Republic culture and the American culture. The girls will have to know how to react in each of different communities because they all have different cultures. They would have to learn how to act in a dominican republic way in the dominican republic communities and learn how to act in a American way in the American communities.
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ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls go through an identity crisis throughout the novel. They can identify with more than one culture therefore they do not feel fully apart of one community. They embrace being apart of more than one community however they have trouble finding their comfort zone within the two communities.
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They belong to two society's in the global community. I believe they feel more American then Dominican because most of their educated life was spent in America. They lived through a dictatorship in the D.R. but also were put through equally strenuous times in America, i believe this makes them sympathetic to everyone in the global community because they have experienced the same hardships.
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The Garcia Girls are more American than Dominican. They have grown up in America and learned American values. They act like most other Americans. When they go back to the Dominican Republic, they feel like the culture there is somewhat odd. Sofia with her new boyfriend adapted to the Dominican culture, and her sisters think she will loose the freedom that she had in America.
ReplyDeleteSofia would most likely say that she would be of the Dominican culture because she pretty much assimilated into it while spending time there as punishment. She grew to love the culture and when you grow to love something then you want to keep a part of it. The Dominican side of her permeates her life in every way (more so than her sisters because they still act like American teenagers) from acting as a "good girlfriend" to acting discrete as a woman .
ReplyDeleteThe rest of the girls would probably say that they are a mix of the cultures but more so say that they are of Dominican culture. When you have parents that are immigrants, you are raised in that particular culture very "strongly". I was born in the United States and I have attended American schools my whole life. But if someone were to ask me "How do I inhabit and embrace the global community?", I would respond that I am Korean. I am not sure why I would say this but I believe it is due to the fact that like the Garcia girls, I am judged by my cultural appearance and people always call me "Korean" instead of "American", which I am. This thus ingrains in my head that I'm different and "Korean". I believe the same applies to the Garcia Girls.
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ReplyDeleteBecause they have been raised in two different cultures, they view themselves as both Americans and Dominicans. However, depending on their capability to fit into one society, each sister possesses a greater sense of belonging to one culture over the other. For example, Yo had a hard time fitting into the American society. Her desire to go back to Domican Republic is displayed several times during the progression of the plot; her search for guavas in islands is one of them. On the other hand Sofia's case in Regular Revolution presents an atypical way to embrace the global community. As a youngest daughter, she was the least familiar with her native culture. Therefore when she was presented with a chance to get to know it, she showed a strong desire to fit in and belong in her Dominican culture, thus falling in love with Manuel and changing herself in order to satisfy him as well as other members of the family.
ReplyDeleteAs these examples show, the Garcia girls generally have developed different ways to embrace both cultures, one of their own, and one that has been forced upon them. They did not give up one in order to inhabit the other; they were able to combine the characteristics of both cultures to create their own unique self.
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I feel that even though the Garcia girls are from the Dominican Republic they are closer to their American side because they want so much to fit in. Although as they get older you can see this change. When they were younger i don't think that they appreciated their Dominican culture as much as when they got older when they wished they had practiced their spanish more and visited their family.
ReplyDeleteSince the Garcia girls started to live in America when they were young, they have American culture instead of Dominican Republic's. Men in Dominican Republic do not respect women, so the girls tried to reject their "real" culture and embrace American culture that everyone have equal rights.
ReplyDeleteI think that they would be able to answer this question in a sense that they come from a completely different world and they're placed in a country that resembles the Dominican in no way shape or form, so they could say that they embraced both worlds, they grew up in the Dominican, and they adapted and became "American" over time. The American culture grows on them and they become it. They inhabit and embrace the American culture to the max because they do not want to go back to the Dominican culture.
ReplyDeleteEven though the Garcia Girls are Dominican, they feel American since it is the culture they grew up with and remember most from their past. They are much more American than Dominican. I am not saying they are fully American because they still keep some Dominican beliefs, I am just saying most of their beliefs and customs are American.
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I think that the Garcia girls would feel that they don't belong in American community, nor do they belong in the Dominican community. All the girls want to belong in both (except Sandi, who prefers Dominican culture rather than American), but struggle to do so, because they have characteristics from both cultures that don't seem to mesh well. Their parents influence them greatly, but there are some things that the girls choose not to follow. For example, in traditional Dominican culture, women are looked down upon greatly by men, and expected to be submissive. All four girls, however, are very independent and outgoing, and find that sexism to be offensive. There are instances where they wish to be more Dominican, such as when Yolanda returned to her home after many years away in America, and Sofia, who knows the least about her own culture. They embrace both cultures, and try to find a middle ground between the two.
ReplyDeleteI think that they would consider themselves dominican american. They have some moral tradition that they inherited and became used to from their parents but i think that they found that the American culture is a better one when it comes to how women act and are treated. When they were younger they obviously had trouble being accepted and fitting into american society but i think as they grew they found a good middle between the United States and their Dominican heritage. Since they have a good mutual culture they are probably more accepting to other cultures which makes a good person. Globally they take on a good culture by being open to both their natural heritage and the new american one that they were forced to be live in.
ReplyDeleteI think that they would answer that question in a way that shows that they embrace different cultures and are not afraid of change. They embrace the global community because they have adapted to the American culture very well and very easily. They have different views on different cultures, but they keep an open mind when they are making their judgements. They inhabit the global community well because they are a mix of the Dominican Republic and the United States of America. They can share two different views on a situation and do so in a highly accurate way. The most important trait that they possess in inhabiting and embracing the global community is by far their ability to adapt to new culture. Other people would not be open to a new lifestyle and that is disaterous to their life.
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ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls would answer this question by saying that their Dominican culture and time living in America create a fusion of two totally different cultural identity. At first it is hard for them to identify themselves. One part of them sees life from a conservative Dominican point of view, while the other part is more liberal American. In fact, being caught between two cultures spelled disaster for some of the girls-- two of them were in insane asylums at one point, because they were unable to place themselves in relation to the world. Although the girls cherish their Dominican roots, I think all four of them appreciate freedom in American culture, and would see themselves as Americans.
Throughout the book, the Garcia Girls have conformed into society. They dress like normal Americans and act like Americans. Although they are of Spanish descent, they have adapted and adopted the American culture.
ReplyDeleteThe girls in the Garcia Girls answer the essential question because even though the were not excited or happy about moving to a new country, the were able to adapt and become a normal American Teenager. They are able to embrace both their American and Dominican culture by blending the cultures into one indivdually unique one. I believe that their views change in the novel because they seem to be sound with who they are as adults but search to find a common ground for what culture they belong to
ReplyDeleteI think the way the Garcia Girls would answer the essential question is they would consider themselves to be more American. They were born in the Dominican Republic, but have spent much of their lives in the United States as they grew older. They still have some connections to their roots but they would considered themselves more American.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the Garcia girls inhabit and embrace the global community far more that their parents. They are able to keep some of their Dominican roots (Sofia and her speaking Spanish to the Fannings) as well as embrace the new American traditions. This allows them to understand and connect to two different cultures on a global scale, rather than an ethnocentric perspective much like that of their parents. I believe that it will benefit the girls in the future to be connected and familiar to two different ways of life and world views.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls were raised in two cultures, Americna and Dominican. As they grow older they become more and more American and tend to embrace that part of their culture more so then the Domnincan part. They do still appreciate their Dominican culture as they got older, but at the same time the took it for granted and didn't practice their Spanish or their traditions. They know they are multicultural and are currently embracing their American culture more so then their Dominican culture. They still view themselves as both cultures but they tend to like American ways better then Dominican, and follow those beliefes more as they are older.
ReplyDeleteAll of the girls have experience in both the Dominican and American cultures. They have began to appreciate the differences in these cultures and realize that two different ways of life exist between them. When the girls were younger, they really did not appreciate the Dominican culture at all and did not realize how much it had to offer. However, as time went on, the girls accepted both cultures as equals and accepted them as a part of their life.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia girls don't seem to fit in to either the American society or the Dominican Republic. They have been raised with both cultures though. They are able to adapt to the American culture eventually in the book. Each Garcia girl on the other hand fit in differently to the American culture. For example Yo had a harder time fitting in while Sofia had an easier time fitting in. Each daughter was able to develope their own individual balance of American culture as well as Dominican culture.
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Because Garcia girls experienced Dominican culture and American culture their experience in this two different culture allows them to embrace the global community with understanding. Their hardship and streneous time in Dominican Republic and American culture embraced them with better understanding of other culture. But at the same time they do inhibit some aspects of other cultures to embrace their Dominican culture. Cultural diffusion inhibits and also embrace the global community.
ReplyDeleteI think that the Garcia girls would say that they are from the Dominican Republic however i think that they would say they are American. The girls have not spent as much time in America but act more American and less Dominican everyday. The girls would say they are a desent example of a multi-cutural family and they would say they enjoy having two main cultures.
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I think the Garcia Girls inhabit the global community by being caught in the middle between American culture and their Dominican roots. At the beginning of the book, Yolanda goes back to the Dominican Republic. While she is there, her aunts point out to her various things that Dominican women can't do and the fact that Yolanda doesn't adhere to these, such as the time when she went to search for guavas by herself. In this way she had lost touch with Dominican practices, but in the same chapter she mentions that she doesn't feel at home in America and wants the Dominican to be her home.
ReplyDeleteThis pattern is dominant throughout the entire novel, showing that the girls had created a culture of their own, because culture is individual, consisting of the heritage they were born with and one that they adopted in America.
The Garcia girls feel that they are apart of both cultures. They are still attached to their Dominican roots, however, they are adapting to the American ways more and more everyday as they live their lives in their new home. They feel more comfortable with their American culture because this is the culture in which they were surrounded by in their lives.
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The Garcia Girls inhabited global community by moving from the Dominican to the United State and they also fully embraced it at the same time. They addapted to United States culture even though they were of Dominican decent. This lets them stay in closer contact with different aspects of global community.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls belong to two society's in the global community. I believe they are more accustomed to American ways because most of their schooling and educating was in America. The hardships they faced in the Dominican Republic are also important to who they are because things were difficult to get through at times. This is also the case for their life in Amercia. At certain points they faced difficult decisions and came across situations that were hard to deal with. This all adds up to The Garcia Girls being very sympathetic to people in the global community who may be going through the same situations as they faced, in which they can relate to.
ReplyDeleteEach of the Garcia Girls would answer that question differently. They all embraced the American and Dominican culture differently. Yolanda would be the girl that described her place in the global community as predominantly Dominican as she was the girl as an adult that yearned to return and live in the Dominican. All the girls embraced the American culture after facing some minor challenges. They also started to reject some parts of the Dominican culture. It was give and take. In the end, they would most likely see themselves as split between two cultures.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia girls increasingly seek independence as they grow up in order to establish distinct identities. Although Dominican family values are also important to them, they adapt their identities as Dominican Republicans to American culture. In America, they embrace the opportunity to assert their rights as women and individuals, instead of remaining as "the four girls".
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls grew up in two cultures, the Dominican and American. Therefore they embraced both cultures, they took things from both cultures to form their own, unique cultural identidy.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls used the American culture to emancipate, but on the other hand they kept some parts of their Dominician culture. The Girls have a different view on certain cultures, their views were shaped by their inter culture experiences. The Garcia Girls were struggling to find their places in America, it took them quite a while to embrace the country. Although they never felt quite comfortable livind in America, they never wanted to go back. Compared to their dad, they were able to actuallt live the modern american life. Their dad never really left the Island they used to live on. He suffered the most in the United States. The community they life in is global bacause they share thoughts and habits with both their cultures and created their own community.
the garcia girls seek independence as they grow up to establish each individual identity. They begin to adapt their identities as dominican women to the american culture. in America they embrace their individuality instead of remaining as only sisters.
ReplyDeletebecause the garcia girls grew up in two completely different cultures, i feel like the girls are able to embrace the global community more than most people because they were able to embrace two cultures. the girls have access to more knowledge about how to adapt to a different culture because they already did it.
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ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls answered the essential question by making the move to America, going through the inevitable hazing, and finally fitting into the mix of cultures that is the United States of America.
I am a large part of the global community. Having lived in both the Dominican Republic and The United States. I have experienced first hand the differences in culture that exist throughout the world. I feel this experience has made it easier for me to accept the cultures of others. Should I end up somewhere halfway across the globe, I think I would be a very accepting person, who could easily assimilate. I can definitely embrace the global community easily. In terms of how I inhabit the global community, I think I inhabit it as a mindful individual.
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The garcia girls are part of two cultures. They are raised Dominican but their environment is American. they encounter obstacles along the way where they think about an option that could be considered "American" and an option that could be considered "Dominican". it is quite interesting.
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ReplyDeleteAs the Garcia Girls grow up, they live in two separate cultures. The two are the Dominican and American. Through these two separate cultures they established and intertwine these cultures to define themselves as a person. While they are in America, they try to embrace the freedom and branch off from the set values they were given while living in the Dominican Republic.
the way that they inhabited and embraced their global community was to assimilate themselves into the different cultures. whether it be their original Dominican culture or the American culture that they were forced into they will try and adapt to that cultures way of living. They would also say that they had trouble adapting because of the way that they were treated by the inhabitants of the culture. That is how they would answer our essential culture.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls inhabit and embrace both the Dominican and American culture. They are at first Dominican and they are only exposed to one culture but as they move to the United States they get to experience a whole different culture. However, how each sister inhabits each culture is completely different from one another. Although the sisters never completely embrace either culture, nevertheless they inhabit both of those cultures into theirs lives.
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Each of the girls would answer that essential question with a different response; for instance each girl embraced the United States culture to a different degree because they all wanted to find different things in it. Predominantly i feel as though the Garcia Girls all sought independence from the oppressive ways of their Dominican roots in relation to a woman's place/ societal role. So as a group i feel that the girls would answer that they inhabit both both cultures they have been exposed to but primarily embrace the American ways because the American culture sees them not as "the four little Garcia girls" they see them as four individual girls.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia girls inhabit the global community by adapting to the different environment and cultures. They find and learn ways to blend and fit in. They also embrace the different cultures by using things from both Dominican and American to create their own personal identity.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls would agree that it is absolutely necessary to embrace the global community as a whole. In light of the fact that they have lived in multiple different cultures, they can relate to this question. They would probably say that the best way to embrace a culture would be to be yourself, while taking note of how others act at the same time. They all made mistakes in this process, and dealt with pain and humility because of it. They would probably say they did not act in the most appropriate manner, and did not grow and inhabit as quickly as possible.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls answered this course's core question "How do I inhabit and embrace the global community?" becuase they embraced the two very different cultures that they were exposed to. They embraced American culture becuase they became accustomed to the freedom that most American teenagers had (drugs and sex). They also embraced Dominican culture by following that particular culture's very different beliefs.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls have to embrace their diverse cultural environments by learning to accept or reject them. In order to do this, they must experience all aspects of American culture, good and bad. After they decide whether or not they like American culture, they must decide to either inhabit it or to leave it.
ReplyDeleteThe garcia girls would answer the question by stating their relationships with each family mamer. They would also include their day to day life experience as American lifestyles and going back and forth between their herritage and their American life styles.They would embrace their gobal community by celbrating their knowledge og their hispanica herritage and by helping each other embrace each other's glbaol community (Aubrey Watkins
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls would say that they are a major part of the global community because they are from more then one culture. They are Dominican-American and can essentially fit in both cultures. They live in America and although they are not accepted directly by the Americans, they adapt many aspects of American culture. Once they go back to the Dominican they feel as if they have lost a part of their Dominican heritage. This can be seen when Yoyo does not remember some of the words from her language. All together the Garcia Girls embrace who they are as multicultural and fit in to the global community.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia Girls undergfo expierences that are both positivie and negative, which reveal the truth of both sides of their culture.
ReplyDeleteThe Garcia girls would say that they inhabit and embrace multiple cultures. Thus they affect the global community in multiple ways. To the American culture they bring the Dominican values they grew up with. They stress principles such as the importance of family and of staying chaste. To their Domincian culture they bring American virtues that give their lives more freedom. In both cultures they do not belong completely. When they were younger this caused a constant struggle for self identity. As they grew older, they found a place to fit in and contribute.
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The Garcia Girls inhabited and embraced the global community in that they learned to accept who they are. A person cannot accept and embrace other cultures and the global community until they learn to respect their own culture. The girls were not sure where they belonged in the begining of the story because they were suddenly uprooted from the Dominican. They came to the Amercias and disliked the: food, dress, atitdue, and scnenery. They did not know why they hated it, but later learned it was not necessarily the culture they disliked, but the change. They later embraced the culture as teenagers. They embrace the freedom of no longer being opressed women of the Dominican. They embraced other- not neccesarily the postive aspects of American teenage culture, however they did acccept it. By acting and speaking around two cultures, the Dominican AND American, completely opposite in location and other aspect they have began to embrace the global community.
ReplyDeleteOnce the Garcia Girls inhabit America and finally become acclimated into the society several years later after conflicts and difficulties assimilating into the culture, they consider themselves to have come from two cultures: Dominican AND American. I believe they embrace the global community with enthusiasm and optimism because they interact with American customs and conform to the society to the point that their parents become frustrated and want them to go back to the Dominican Republic. This shows how the Garcia Girls like integrating into new cultures and successfully make this aspect an important part of their heritage and culture.
ReplyDeleteEach of the Garcia Girls would say that they have lodged themselves into the American sociiety, they would give the story of how they came to America from the Dominican Repucblic, however when it comes to the question of how they each embraced the global community, they would all answer differently. Sofia and Sandi would say that they have embracedthier spanish heritage whereas the other two would say that they have totally embraced American Culture. To futher prove my response I refer to a smart student and use his words to support my own.
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"Each of the Garcia Girls would answer that question differently. They all embraced the American and Dominican culture differently. Yolanda would be the girl that described her place in the global community as predominantly Dominican as she was the girl as an adult that yearned to return and live in the Dominican. All the girls embraced the American culture after facing some minor challenges. They also started to reject some parts of the Dominican culture. It was give and take. In the end, they would most likely see themselves as split between two cultures."