Tag: Cultural Identity

La Fiesta de La Tirana: Integrating Spirituality, Corporality, and Tradition

In the middle of the Atacama desert there’s a small village called La Tirana, with a regular population of around 1,200 inhabitants. The village has a few streets,…

Latinoamerica

Latinoamerica is a song from Calle 13. When I first heard this song I realized how important music is for identity in the construction of culture itself. Back…

Keeping the Otavalenos Culture

My Humanities Moment started when I moved with my family from Utah to Ecuador in July 2019. My family is originally from Venezuela but moved to the United…

Things Don’t Have To Be The Way They’ve Always Been

Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands was one of the assigned texts in my U.S. Mexico Border class this semester. In this book, Anzaldua writes about borders she encounters between herself…

Why Americans in Indochina Wars?

I misunderstood the Geneva Accords and the reasons behind American involvement in Vietnam. I knew it was in the context of the Cold War but I did not…

How Korean Fan Dancing Helped Me Connect with My Adopted Son

As a middle-aged American Caucasian woman with an adopted son from South Korea, I had a longing to understand my son’s heritage and feel more connected to him….

Eyes on the Mockingbird

I grew up in a very small town in rural Wisconsin. When I looked at my classmates it was like looking in a mirror. Because of that, I…