Yo Sy Jouaquin

Many people come to America to achieve the “American dream” sacrificing their culture and traditions of their native land along the way. Society is a white washed Christian world where people prostitute their dignity and morals to get ahead. Gonzales observes the effects modern society on his culture and pridefully states “I am Joaquin” with such conviction it se

“Caught up in the whirl of a gringo society. Part of the blood that is mine has labored endlessly for four hundred years under the heel of lustful Europeans,” Gonzales articulates. After telling of how his blood has been stained by the greedy Europeans he then embraces it as a part of his heritage. This stanza of the poem is perhaps the most powerful tonally with his pride of his people ever present and the hope the future of his people overcoming the new wave of Eupropeanization in which his culture has economically been “ destroyed by modern society.” Gonzales describes how mainstream society some of his culture (economically) and him. Gonzales still has hope he can endure.

The last lines of the poem read, “I am the Aztec Prince and the Christian Christ I SHALL ENDURE! I WILL ENDURE!” The past and the present join together in the end to create a battle cry of his people for a new age. He

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