Where are you from? By Gina Valdez, Legal alien, Elena by Pat Mora, and Here by Sandra Maria Esteves are poems that have a similar meaning. These poems are connected by the same problem, they can be cultural or linguistic, that most immigrants suffer from. Every single poem has a different story and characters, but with the same problem. Those poems talked about the boundaries that most immigrants have, some of them don't identify with their new culture, however, other poems showed the language problems that the characters have. The focus of those poems are basically the problems that most immigrants suffer: adapting to a new culture with a new language. “Here” by Sandra Maria Esteves. A poem that spoke about his identity and what he feels about his identities. Esteves said she has two different identities “I am two parts/one person Boricua/spic” (Esteves 362), she states she is Boricua and Spic which means she is also from Puerto Rico and Hispanic. She also talked about her “past and present” (Esteves 362) which can be interpreted as her identifying equally with her past and present. The last two lines of the first stanza can summarize her cultural problem "Given a cultural beauty...And robbed of a cultural identity" (Esteves 362), when she says she was "given a cultural beauty" she can be talking about her Hispanic blood, by the looks of her, but she also said she was "robbed of a cultural identity," meaning they took her identity away. "Elena" is a poem by Pat Mora. In this poem it is shown how a mother tries to relate to her children and the society in which she lives, trying to adapt to a new culture and a new language...... middle of paper......the language” (Valdes 378) there shows the border that separated her from her two homes. Both places are his home but he doesn't know which one he belongs to. These four poems have a similar problem, the cultural/linguistic boundary. The poem “Here” is a cultural problem like “Legal Alien,” while “Elena” is a poem with a linguistic problem, “Where are you from?” they both have cultural and linguistic border problems. Basically every single poem expresses a similar problem, which has to do with a new culture where maybe people don't feel like they belong to this new culture. These poems show the problem immigrants have living in a new country and new language, or the problem of not knowing what society or culture they belong to. Works Cited Christe John S, Gonzales Jose B. "Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature.." Person, nd Print