Its hard enough being me

"It's Hard Enough Being Me" by Anna Lisa Raya presents itself as a
short story about the cultural awakening of a female college student that
occurs when she goes off to college in New York. It becomes very
apparent, after a close reading, that the short story is nothing more than
a forum for Raya's own agenda. The author's anti American agenda can be
broken down into three distinct areas. Those areas are nationalism,
prejudice, and propaganda.

In the first paragraph of the poem, Raya describes the student as
discovering that she was Latina. It was very apparent after that statement
that there would be no references to the student as being an American. In
fact, Raya states that " she was always just Mexican" (1010) or she "was just
Puerto Rican" (1010). It is good to be in touch with your heritage, but the
sense of Hispanic nationalism is just put on a little to strong. Raya
even goes a step further about the discussion of some Puerto Rican
writers and uses som...