The answer is <span>Each day, he studied the way successful hip-hop artists like E-z would dress and act, from the color of their socks to the way they kept their eyelids half closed, giving the impression that they were cool, to bother looking at an inferior world.</span>
The correct answer to which best explains Nye's choice words to establish her voice in the mentioned excerpt is the second one: "Nye uses figurative language to support her opinion that staying connected to one's heritage makes life richer."
She uses her mother tongue saluting her neighbours and this shows them Nye's complex cultural background and that her identity is not confined to one simple category. She is close to her cultural heritage and it is present in her everyday life. Not being limited to a simplistic identity makes her life richer and open to multiple identifications and cultural references.
