From Soldadera to Adelita: The Depiction of Women in the Mexican Revolution

The complexity of our diverse communities requires us to reflect on pre-conceived notions of understanding that shape worldviews. This project examines approaches that exclude divergent perspectives, while promoting intolerant ideologies that limit our possibilities for shared learning. It also explores crucial elements that shape our understanding in an effort to expose the limitations created by absolute frames of mind. This research involves an analysis of scientific and religious fundamentalist outlooks that negate vital opportunities for discovery through mutual collaboration and the acknowledgment of exclusive and incomplete perspectives that discourage and undervalue diversity. The world without language becomes unimaginable, since language makes the articulation of our thoughts and the human experience possible. Through an interactive connection with symbols, signs, and sounds, language enables us to express complex concepts while allowing us to process and convey the abstract, thus creating an environment of communication through the exchange of ideas. The human need for expression and contact with one another connects us with the origin of language. Once the connection takes place, the cultural components of language begin to develop an interactive relationship between our traditions and our verbal living experiences as a society. It is through this association that our world begins to take shape, and the perception of our world becomes outlined by culture and language. This bond between language and human thought becomes our cultural reality, as well as the medium through which we relate to one another. Through the interrelated nature of language and its cultural components, the way we learn and recognize the world becomes predetermined and dependant on our specific system of symbols and sounds used within our communities, developing our sense of reality and cultural identity. My main argument explores the relationship between language and its cultural components from a linguistic anthropological and philosophical perspective and investigates the role language and culture play in shaping our perception and epistemological understanding of the world as well as the development, recognition, and acceptance of knowledge. If our cultural identity originates through language, then the foundation for learning and development of worldviews also relies on the existence of language. Edward Sapir1 speaks about the power of language and culture as he warns us that our cultural traditions potentially imprison our thoughts as well as our acceptance of reality. He states, “Once they had become a part of a linguistic system, they would then be more likely to be imposed on it because of the tyrannical hold Alfredo Hernandez Corsen