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Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

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of civil rights issues in Vicki L. Ruizs From Out of the Shadows effectively illustrates how each author is quite successful at telling tales of cultural struggle, immigration, racism &  discrimination and the inherent commitment that accompanies assimilation. In portraying the characterization of these various bonds and relationships, the authors quintessential components draw together the very basic qualities that  exist within the confines of Mexican-American and Asian-American cultures. While there are, indeed, a handful of similarities with regard to the two very diverse concepts of conventional culture and  mainstreaming into another, each author illustrates how there exist many more differences that serve to cause friction in direct relation to respect for ones natural heritage, with particular focus  upon women. II. DIFFERENT CULTURES, SAME IMPEDIMENTS The structural basis that pertains to cultural assimilation is symbolic of Yung and Ruizs intrinsic  creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Indeed, growing up as a representation of the very character each writer creates within her literary world has provided the authors  with significant insight to the concepts about which their cultural tales address. Without such influence, it is highly unlikely that Yung or Ruiz would have been fully capable of  portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitating manner that they so successfully achieve. To say that women of  all cultures have had to fight for their existence throughout history would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of Yung and  Ruiz. Indeed, the road to female freedom and self-expression has been paved with patriarchal intolerance and characteristic skepticism; that women have been forced to prove their worthiness within the