Read the following excerpt from Gary Soto’s story "Like Mexicans."
My grandmother gave m...
Read the following excerpt from Gary Soto’s story "Like Mexicans."
My grandmother gave me bad advice and good advice when I was in my early teens. For the bad advice, she said that I should become a barber because they made good money and listened to the radio all day. “Honey, they don’t work como burros,” she would say every time I visited her. She made the sound of donkeys braying. “Like that, honey!” For the good advice, she said that I should marry a Mexican girl. “No Okies, hijo”—she would say— “Look, my son. He marry one and they fight every day about I don’t know what and I don’t know what.”
Which of the following elements of cultural heritage is revealed in this excerpt?
art
religion
folklore
language
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