Borders tigrayans and ports oh my essay

One reason for this is to preserve culture. He believes that states have a legitimate interest in preserving the political culture and or controlling how that culture changes over time for instance the role of language in maintaining a public culture for example if a lot of English people move to Thailand how would that affect the native language.

The title, Borders, is very symbolic because it has several functions and plays a significant role in the theme of the story. The protagonist experiences the conflict of her identity that we all go through at some time in life. She struggles to keep her inner identity as she attempts to cross the Canadian and American border.

She doesn’t state that whether she is a Canadian or an American while struggling to cross the border, in this way starting an argument with the border guards. With a number of tries by the border guards, the Mother has a fixed single answer for her identity i.e “Blackfoot” (135). Mother is portrayed as a protagonist.

The story is about a Mother who wants to meet her daughter staying in the Salt Lake City in the U.S. The main setting of the story is at the U.S. border where Mother is questioned and is refused an entry into the U.S. because of not disclosing her citizenship. The Mother is considered to be the cause of conflicts in “Borders”.