LA GRINGUITA

Main Theme : Adapting to a new culture

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Her family emigrate to United States

At school, there were several incidents of name-calling, the days before bilingual education or
multicultural studies, when kids like her was thrown in the deep end of the public school pool.
Her mother managed to get her scholarship to her old boarding school where Good Manner and
Tolerance and English skills were required.
Her growing distance from Spanish was a way in which she was setting herself free from that old
world where, as girls, she didnt have much say about what she could do with her lives.
She had no one to bail her out of American trouble once she went her own way in English.
She and her sister no hung out together in the D.R., as they referred to it, chatting in English on
the crazy world around them; the silly rules for girls, the obnoxious behavior of macho guys, and
deplorable situation of the poor.
hint,hint dillita joked, an expression everyone was using at her school.