The Non Tenured writer "La generacion o Sea" reflection

Luis Rafael Sanchez wrote a semi famous essay called "La generacion o Sea". This writing was the critiqued by a critic named J.D. Perivolaris. The essay basically talked about the new generation using new words and phrases that are considered "busy words". "O Sea" is one phrase meaning "I mean". In english there is also busy words such as "umm" and "like" that people use to transition sentences when they do not know what to say. Sanchez believes that this way of speaking is a limited expressive ability of many of his countrymen, who are torn between the Old World cachet of precious Hispanism and the promise of assimilation into an American way of life.
Sanchez is clear as to whom he blames for Puerto Ricans' inabiilty to use language not only as the most direct means of engagement with one's experience of life but also an instrument of political power. One of the things Sanchez does is attack the education system and also mothers, aunts, grandmothers, school mistresses, headmistresses, and preists. Sanchez finally suggests that colonial education has been defeated by the American culture because mothers have been too caught up in the American culture and are now starting to lose their own Puerto Rican culture. J.D. Perivolaris is basically reinforcing Sanchez's ideas and believe that the middle class has been corrupted by the American culture.