Lost in Culture Culture is something that people have in one way or another, also helps that we can relate to people with the same cultural background, beliefs and ideals easier than others. Having a native culture is very important for most people since they need the roots for something that they can grasp on and identify. That being said, having more than one cultural background could sound beneficial and ideally good for a person, but is it really a better option to be bicultural or even multicultural?. Sandra Cisneros is an author of short stories and novels that shares this similarity of not being able to really identify with any of the culture from any of her parents. Cisneros was born in Chicago on December 20, 1954, to Alfredo Cisneros, a Mexican…show more content… Her own mother is a Mexican too. But she was not born in Mexico but here in US; her father being the opposite and born in Mexico being the real deal like some people in the street could say; therefore not being the same in any way. Clemencia herself depicts to never marry no man. She has witnessed their infidelities and she herself helped many to do so. Not only her mother’s words but also she being an adult has showed her this life style. Clemencia proclaims that at some point in life she would have wanted to be married. She wanted to wear that band in her finger like a proof that she was already taken. Instead she going from bar to bar or her apartment and taking any men she wanted. In Clemencia’s mind this man only being borrowed like a toy she could have any time she liked this. She will never get marry because in her own eyes she is too romantic, because marriage failed her, in her own book did not exist any man that has disappoint or failed
