Crossing_Cultural_Borders

Crossing Cultural Borders Border Crossing Border Crossing has become an inevitable fact of everyday life, for many Chicanas. This is due to many environmental factors and not just those placed on them by Anglos. Border crossing has become so prevalent, not only because Anglos refusal to accept Chicanas as part of their world, but also because of the restraints of agency put on Chicanas by older more traditional Chicanas. This is a double-edged sword most Chicanas must face everyday. To Anglos, Chicanas are not as good as other Anglos, and too many Chicanos they shouldn’t even try to be as good. To counter this Chicanas are faced with crossing borders. Crossing borders leads Chicanas to have many different social identities, and they must learn to embrace the social identities that fit in at any given moment. By doing this Chicanas may be able to one-day break these borders placed upon them in everyday life. Border crossing occurs in many different ways, but it would not happen if Chicanas were unable to accept many different social identities. Having and embracing different social identities is what makes it possible. Being able to even have different social identities chicanas, social, crossing, different, border, teresa, people, identities, family, borders, values, society, class, been, older, need, identity, heritage, embrace, chicana, anglo, white, very, through, should, rather, put, part, own, mexican, good, gender, create, believe, anglos