Blaxicans And Other Reinvented Americans By Richard Rodriguez
People all over the world discover new cultures around and become curious on how it must feel to eat, dress, celebrate, honor, talk, and even respect the new aspects of the new culture they try to adjust to. People also tend to want society to consider them a different culture as they voluntarily change their cultural identity. Identity and culture has always been a big part of an individual's life, mainly because that is the only way to know the separation between the many human races of the world. Identity creates an individual profile with unique characteristics for a specific person. Culture flows through a being's blood, which is based upon their ancestors. Moving on, immigrants have helped shaped American culture and identity by assimilating to a new culture that is not your own and become able to embrace the new aspects of a new identity in society.
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In Richard Rodriguez’s argument “Blaxicans and Other Reinvented Americans,” Rodriguez portrays the idea that according to him it is understandable to assimilate to a foreign culture.
This means that you can go out in the real world and say your are something you were not born with. For example, Rodriguez's statement “I answered that I am Chinese, and that is because I live in a Chinese city and because I want to be Chinese.”(163-165), serves the purpose that he began to acknowledge the lifestyle of a culture not his own. He does not quite speak of his Mexican culture, and it may come to conclusion that he does not want to follow his parents way of thinking, food topics, life style, dress code, and more that reflects back. He decides to change the rules because why not right? Going back to the idea of shaping America can be shown with Richard Rodriguez as he chooses to follow the Chinese culture and not the country’s nor his
culture.
Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue” reflects on the idea that some people need to learn to adapt to a new culture in order to communicate with others and even get around the community. Amy Tan is a Chinese women born in America with a mother who has obtained a very poor English Language throughout the years after she fled China’s Communist revolution. Her mother speaks “broken English”, which is another way to identity the struggle of speaking English from the perspective of an immigrant. Tan states that “[She] had to get on the phone and say in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing, ‘This is Mrs. Tan.’” (83-84), in order for her to receive her check for her work. She has to become her mother’s tongue when communicating with others because her english was not quite coherent. This reflects back to the main idea of shaping American culture in a way where immigrants have to learn the new ways of a culture in order comprehend another person.
The idea of choosing whether or not assimilating to another culture is one's own. Some use it to get around in a new country and others just happen to say they belong to a new culture just because they want to. There is always a positive and negative side to an idea like this. The positive side is that people shape American culture by struggling to learn its language. The negative side is that people have a variety of cultures to assimilate from making it hard to recognize one true American culture. Maybe American culture means to acknowledge a culture who you are proud of and identify your inner self with the most.
In Richard Rodriguez’s argument “Blaxicans and Other Reinvented Americans,” Rodriguez portrays the idea that according to him it is understandable to assimilate to a foreign culture.
This means that you can go out in the real world and say your are something you were not born with. For example, Rodriguez's statement “I answered that I am Chinese, and that is because I live in a Chinese city and because I want to be Chinese.”(163-165), serves the purpose that he began to acknowledge the lifestyle of a culture not his own. He does not quite speak of his Mexican culture, and it may come to conclusion that he does not want to follow his parents way of thinking, food topics, life style, dress code, and more that reflects back. He decides to change the rules because why not right? Going back to the idea of shaping America can be shown with Richard Rodriguez as he chooses to follow the Chinese culture and not the country’s nor his
culture.
Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue” reflects on the idea that some people need to learn to adapt to a new culture in order to communicate with others and even get around the community. Amy Tan is a Chinese women born in America with a mother who has obtained a very poor English Language throughout the years after she fled China’s Communist revolution. Her mother speaks “broken English”, which is another way to identity the struggle of speaking English from the perspective of an immigrant. Tan states that “[She] had to get on the phone and say in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing, ‘This is Mrs. Tan.’” (83-84), in order for her to receive her check for her work. She has to become her mother’s tongue when communicating with others because her english was not quite coherent. This reflects back to the main idea of shaping American culture in a way where immigrants have to learn the new ways of a culture in order comprehend another person.
The idea of choosing whether or not assimilating to another culture is one's own. Some use it to get around in a new country and others just happen to say they belong to a new culture just because they want to. There is always a positive and negative side to an idea like this. The positive side is that people shape American culture by struggling to learn its language. The negative side is that people have a variety of cultures to assimilate from making it hard to recognize one true American culture. Maybe American culture means to acknowledge a culture who you are proud of and identify your inner self with the most.