La Democracia

1. In the early years of my boyhood, my parents coped very well in America.
2. My father, who had steady work, and my mother, who managed at home, were nobody's victims.3. Ambition led them to purchase a home that was many blocks from the poor side of Sacramento.
4. This home, which they had worked so hard to own, was only a blockfrom the biggest, whitest houses in town.
5. Despite their achievements, the confidence of "belonging" in public was withheld from them both.
6. They regarded thepeople at work, the faces in crowds, as very distant from us.
7. They were the others, los gringos, who always spoke too rapidly.
8. The English that my parents spoke inpublic was hesitant, accented, not always grammatical.
9. The Spanish language of their Mexican past, which they spoke at home, sounded in counterpoint to the English ofpublic society.
10. The Spanish that they spoke with ease was a pleasing, soothing, consoling reminder of home.

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| |1The day, which you wrote down, was Thursday. |
2The situation in which we find ourselves is a difficult one. | |
3The address at which they live is unlisted in thetelephone book. | |
4The Evian water, which I drank last night, contained sodium. (adds extra info) |
| 5The Tesla, which runs off of a lithium-ion battery, issurprisingly fast. |
| 6The Lost Generation , about which I wrote, is the subject of today's lecture. |
. | 7Alcatraz Prison, which is located in San Francisco Bay, was adepressing place to work.8"The doctor, who flew to Pakistan, helped four people with medical emergencies ont he flight". |

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