In nearly every case seen in Chicano Nationalism, Gonzales avoids referring to those who he fights against as people, using “them” and “they” and only ever referring to an individual person once, referring to them as “The Gringo Captain”. This is seen best in contrast when compared to who he is trying to reach, he tries to unite those from the Barrio with those from the campo and ranchito, using three very specific denominations of people against simply “the exploiters” this difference in language used to describe who he is trying to reach creates several impacts on the text. The main impact had by this specific feature of the text is the removal of humanity from the opposing force. By describing those who you want to support you with terms rather specific to them and then trying to describe a very large group with inhuman terms referring to all of them under the same negative title their individual humanity is removed and they become a collective, with each one becoming a part of the problem where many people are still
In nearly every case seen in Chicano Nationalism, Gonzales avoids referring to those who he fights against as people, using “them” and “they” and only ever referring to an individual person once, referring to them as “The Gringo Captain”. This is seen best in contrast when compared to who he is trying to reach, he tries to unite those from the Barrio with those from the campo and ranchito, using three very specific denominations of people against simply “the exploiters” this difference in language used to describe who he is trying to reach creates several impacts on the text. The main impact had by this specific feature of the text is the removal of humanity from the opposing force. By describing those who you want to support you with terms rather specific to them and then trying to describe a very large group with inhuman terms referring to all of them under the same negative title their individual humanity is removed and they become a collective, with each one becoming a part of the problem where many people are still