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Why Should My Primas Crave Anything Cuban By Roaker

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Author Blanco indicates that it is unnecessary to seek for recognition from others to buttress one’s belief in one’s cultural identity. The narrator is not reserved with his cordial welcome to his cousins, who are from New York and are the most “American” girls in his Cuban family. However, when the cousins arrive, they are thrilled to be entertained with the Cuban food they have been craving for months. The narrator is bemused by this contradiction and says, “How weird. Why should my primas crave anything Cuban?” (Blanco 121). The author draws a dramatic contradiction between the girls’ obvious American identity and their longingness for their Cuban heritage. Thus, the author promotes the narrator’s confusion and leads him to reconsider his

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