Cultures
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Dear Lailia,
I don't really understand you,
and it isn't because of your language, culture
or because you enthrall my everything when you look at me.
You're so put together for someone from somewhere far away.
Hola, Bonjour, Ciao, Guten Tag
these are different ways to just say hello.
It's marvelous and eye opening how
languages have an impact on our lives.
Without them we wouldn't have different
Two cultures can get me twisted,
The white community is always listed,
When filling out my race,
I always wanted to be different, to have those pretty words roll over my tongue and fit in the cacophony of sounds
i didn't want to sit by myself at the lunchroom, wanted a crowd of admirers
I wanted recognition
It started in the blazing heat of a Florida December,
a Puerto Rican madre and a bowl of arroz con grandules.
The beginning.
Rolling r's like hills in Arkansas,
It started in the blazing heat of a Florida December,
a Puerto Rican madre and a bowl of arroz con grandules.
The beginning.
Rolling r's like hills in Arkansas,
Two parts of me
Clash at each other
Fighting to be the very best
To win over the other
The race to space
Or battle of government
From the White House to the Red Square
Uncle Sam versus Mother Russia
We are all EQUAL Americans, this should be common sense,
but instead, for society what’s not right is rinsed
Its just as bad as Hitler and genocide,
We are all equal, who's to say we are not?
