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**Who is the story about?**  ====**The story is about the author Ortiz, a Puerto Rican woman who grew up in the United States and had an enriching Latin cultural life as she grew up, but had many experiences of oppression and stereotypes forced upon her.** ====


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 * **While in London she passes by a pub and a drunk Irish man walked up to her and got on his knees and did a rendition of "Maria" from West Side Story. She goes along with it and laughs but instead she feels picked out and set aside from everyone else. **
 * **Media and propaganda have promoted such vocab words like "sizzling" and "smoldering" as adjectives to describe Latin women and Latin food which sets a bad stereotype on Latin culture. **
 * **Some other words that people use to describe Latin women are "Hot Tamales" and "A sexual firebrand". These are all very offense to the narrator because they set a stereotype for all Latin women and set a bad image of them.

