Richard Rodriquez (b. 1944) is a writer and editor for Pacific News Service and contributing editor for Harper's magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and the Sunday Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times. He has written articles for many other newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and The New Republic. Rodriguez is the author of the memoirs Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodgruez (D.R. Godine, 1981) and Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (Viking Press, 1992). This 1996 essay for Pacific News Service appeared in a number of U.S. newspapers.
"A Future of Faith and Cyberspace" (Composing Cyberspace p. 259) is not available online.
1. Summarize the religious and demographic trends that Rodgriguez describes. How does he explain the recent rise of Protestantism in the Americas? In what ways does "the freeway ... [go] in both directions" (¶ 8) between North and South? What other kinds of traffic, not discussed by Rodriguez, does this freeway include?
2. The freeway also divides East Palo Alto, "a neighborhood still notorious for its despair and drive-by shootings" (¶ 3), from "the greatest concentration of high-tech industry in the world" (¶ 2). Why are Silicon Valley and cyberspace important to this essay? Why do you think Rodriguez brings them in so obliquely?
3. What two visions of a near-future Global Village does Rodriguez portray and what does he imply about their relationship? Must these two visions be mutually exclusive, in your opinion?
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