HELP PLEASEE DUE TODAY Read the passage from "Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez. By the time I was in high school, I was a popular kid, and it showed in my name. Friends called me Jules or Hey Jude, and

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HELP PLEASEE DUE TODAY Read the passage from "Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez. By the time I was in high school, I was a popular kid, and it showed in my name. Friends called me Jules or Hey Jude, and once a group of troublemaking friends my mother forbade me to hang out with called me Alcatraz. I was Hoo-lee-tah only to Mami and Papi and uncles and aunts who came over to eat sancocho on Sunday afternoons – old world folk whom I would just as soon go back to where they came from and leave me to pursue whatever mischief I wanted to in America.

What does Alvarez mean when she says , " old world folk whom I would just as soon go back to where they came from...