Analysis Of 'Barrio Boy'

The first, main or central idea of "Barrio Boy" is being part of a new culture doesn't mean you forget where you came from. First of all, Ernesto felt that becoming a part of a new culture, did not mean being ashamed of your past identity. For example, paragraph 17 states, "It was easy for me to feel that becoming a proud American, as she said we should, did not mean feeling ashamed of being a Mexican." Second of all, at a place with a new culture, making people into a part of a new identity of the new culture doesn't mean throwing away what you originally were. Another example is in paragraph 17, it explains, "At Lincoln, making us into Americans did not mean scrubbing away what made us originally foreign." As you can see, one central theme