In "the myth of the latin woman: i just met a girl named maria," judith ortiz cofer makes reference to "the island." this refers to

In "the myth of the latin woman: i just met a girl named maria," judith ortiz cofer makes reference to "the island." this refers to "her ethnicity."

Ethnicity alludes to the identification of a gathering in light of an apparent social peculiarity that makes the gathering into a "people." This uniqueness is accepted to be communicated in dialect, music, values, craftsmanship, styles, writing, family life, religion, custom, nourishment, naming, open life, and material culture.

So you know what happened and so it doesn’t repeat it’s self