4.+Impression+of+Subject

**What is the one impression that the writer wants you to have about her subject?**

The writer wants to give the reader the impression that stereotypes can be altered by understanding the Latin culture and that the prejudices can be transformed "at a much more individual level." She helps the reader do this by providing an insight to the obstacles Latina women have to overcome by sharing her own experiences. She wants to impress on the reader that Puerto Rican women especially are influenced by their vibrant culture and that "it is custom, not chromosomes, that leads us to choose scarlet over pale pink."

Some examples:
 * "...life is a struggle against the misconceptions perpetuated by the myth of the Latina as whore, domestic, or criminal. We cannot change this by legislating the way people look at us."
 * "...we were influenced in our decisions about clothes and colors by the women-older sisters and mothers who had grown up on a tropical island where the natural environment was a riot of primary colors..."