My grandmother gave me bad advice and good advice when I was in my early teens. For the bad advice, she said that I should becom
e a barber because they made good money and listened to the radio all day. “Honey, they don’t work como burros,” she would say every time I visited her. She made the sound of donkeys braying. “Like that, honey!” For the good advice, she said that I should marry a Mexican girl. “No Okies, hijo”—she would say— “Look, my son. He marry one and they fight every day about I don’t know what and I don’t know what.” For her, everyone who wasn’t Mexican, black, or Asian were Okies. The French were Okies, the Italians in suits were Okies. . . . she lectured me on the virtues of the Mexican girl. What inference can be made about the grandmother’s point of view in this excerpt?
1.She is eager to assimilate herself and her family into mainstream American culture. 2.She is unwilling to embrace any aspect of multiculturalism because she detests American culture. 3.She wants to preserve her family’s Mexican culture even though she no longer lives in Mexico. <span>4.She believes that marrying an “Okie” is equivalent to ruining any prospects of financial success.</span>
Answer: Because chess is a game where you need a real poker face. You have to keep your emotions bottled up inside instead of showing them. Because then your opponent will know that you have a great move in mind or something along those lines. She loves these secrets because she wants to be unlike her mother who is always voicing her opinion. She wants to have her secrets to herself and she can through chess.
When your text states that communication is unavoidable, it means that people will probably associate meaning to your actions, even when you don not intend to speak of something.
