In "the myth of the latin woman: i just met a girl named maria," judith ortiz cofer makes reference to "the island." this refers to "her ethnicity."
Ethnicity alludes to the identification of a gathering in light of an apparent social peculiarity that makes the gathering into a "people." This uniqueness is accepted to be communicated in dialect, music, values, craftsmanship, styles, writing, family life, religion, custom, nourishment, naming, open life, and material culture.