American ChicaBy: Marie Arana In her fathers Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mothers American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chickens neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half. Coming to