By reading Anzaldua s writing, we get a very clear sense of how her culture affects that writing. She writes of her unique culture, her culture that exists on the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. With Anzaldua writing about her life, we are brought into her past as she understands it. This is a way that she can show us her past and background to allow the reader to experience this culture. Anzaldua herself says that culture affects our beliefs and this in turn affects our writing.
Culture forms our beliefs.
We perceive the version of reality that it communicates. Dominant paradigms, predefined concepts that exist unquestionable, unchallengeable, are transmitted to us through our culture. Aunt Lute Books, 1999. Sj , Monica and Barbara Mor. Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth .