Una Mezcla

Yesterday I was observing the scenery from Tower Hill station. This mixture of the City buildings with the Tower of London and the medieval surroundings, this co-existence old and the new seems harmonious. But is it?

"Cradled in one culture, sandwiched between two cultures, straddling all three cultures and their value systems, la mestiza undergoes a struggle of flesh, a struggle of borders, an inner war. Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple often opposing messages. The coming together of two self consistent but habitually inconsistent frames of reference causes un choque, a cultural collusion" (Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands: The New Mestiza, p.78)