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My Family/Mi familia Please answer the questions below in succinct yet complete. Try too avoid use of first person (I think, I feel, I believe, It appears to me, etc) Also, please try to use active voice (The film shows…) as opposed to passive voice voice (It was shown in the film that …)
1. In what way does the film represent and empower the non-lettered citizen?
2. By portraying Mexican-Americans as the new American family, how does Mi familia at once challenge and accept traditional notions of so-called American values?
3. Some immigrant groups have also equated education with “leaving the family behind, being ashamed of the family,” etc. How does this view affect the attainment of the American Dream.
4. What are some examples of institutional racism in this movie? What are some examples of cultural racism in this movie? How do these examples impact the Sanchez family?
5. Compare and contrast the sense of “community” that Mario Suárez presents in his short story “El Hoyo” with that of Mifamilia.
6. What do you think are the defining characteristics of Anglo American culture? What part of the Sanchez’s family’s culture does not fit with American Anglo culture?
7. What makes it difficult for the Sanchez family to assimilate into American Anglo culture? Why do some of the children resist assimilating? What is the experience like for those who do assimilate?
8. What is your cultural heritage? What does that mean to you? Have you, or any of your family members, faced institutional oppression to your culture here in the United States? How did your family deal with that oppression? What was their means of survival? What did you gain and what did you lose through that means of survival?
Explanation & Answer
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OUTLINE
1. Introduction
2. Body
3. Reference
Running head: MY FAMILY/ MI FAMILIA
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My Family/Mi Familia
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MY FAMILY/ MI FAMILIA
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My Family/Mi Familia
Mi Familia is an American movie that tries to portray what a Mexican family went
through within a period of three generations. The director of the film shows the experiences that
family members always go through as they try to shape their cultural identities form the Mexican
culture to the American culture. The director in an attempt to represent and empower the nonlettered citizens he highlights various cultural practices from the Mexican at the same time he
tried to analyze the transition that they went through before adopting the American foreign
culture. The director shows some elements of romance in the movie that is associated with the
Mexican culture; most of the time, the characters danced to Latin music in unique ways which
are not popular in Los Angeles. At the same time, the dress codes of the Mexican characters are
also e...