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Richard Rodriguez Blaxican
Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur’s argument states that every race will become united and accomplish great changes. Some may say that immigrants are corrupting America, but contrary to their beliefs, immigrants are improving America through their hard work and labor. In the essay “Blaxicans”, by Richard Rodriguez, the author implies that America is not about segregation or about being more superior over the other, but about how all the races should become one. Also, in the essay “Mother Tongue”, by Amy Tan, she explains how most Asian Americans are being discriminated through their qualities. In the essay “Blaxicans”, Rodriguez states “... American experience: not as biracial, but as the re-creation of the known world in the New World.”
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