An antonym would be "Crucial"
Answer and Explanation:
After reading the essay "Names nombres" written by J. Alvarez, we can learn how difficult it is for a family of Spanish origin to maintain their names and traditions within a totally different culture like that of the USA, especially when that family comes from a country considered to be "third world", seen as inferior and often shameful and devalued. This affected the way Alvarez saw her own identity, associated with her and her family names. These names were pronounced so differently by the Americans, it seemed that they were erasing the Latin origin of it and imposing an Americanized and more "normal" version.
In this essay, Alvarez approaches her youth as a Latin immigrant in the USA. It shows how difficult it is to live between two cultures and how it affects various elements in people's lives.
Hiding your true feelings by pretending you feel exactly the
opposite is called dissimulation. Dissimulation is a noun that describes the
character of faking the actual feelings of a person. It is way of deceiving
someone about the actual feelings the person is going through. In another way
it can be the act of pulling wool over someone’s eyes to trick that person.
This word can be used in a wide variety of ways to project a person. This word
is often used to describe deceit.
