Reading Post.

​The question that thses article kept bringing to question is who am I? One's identity is placed in question in each of these stories. But most importantly, these stories identify how these authors create their writings. For example, Gloria Anzaldua began her writing by telling her younger sister suspenseful stories and she realized how those stories were actually good and she decided to start writing. However, Anzaldua points out the difference between the appreciation of art between cultures. She uses the distinction between Tribal cultures and Western Cultures. Western cultures has only the rich individuals appreciating arts where the Tribal cultures "the 'witness' is a participant in the enactment of the work in the ritual, not a member of the privileged classes". On the other hand Anne Waldman classifies the distinction of woman in society. Anne Waldman list all different type of woman in many different societies as she points to the women who are "abandoned, high-styled, high-heel wearers, etc." 

Nonetheless, the similarity of these stories go beyond the self imposed question, who am I, but the style of these writing are similar as well. As they both touch topics on ancient society groups and utilize some words from their languages. For example, Anzaldua focuses on the Aztec group and utilize words like Ni Culcani. Waldman, on the other hand, utilizes words like tantra from the Tibettan Buddhist. On the long run, these authors use their knowledge of their studies in order to develop their writings. 

Overall, these stories were hard to decipher and still confusing to this point, as it requires knowledge of the ancient society groups. Not being able to identify the history nor impact of the Aztec groups, the Mayan, or the Tibettan Buddhist, it is hard to make conclusive arguments with the content of the reading.