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.
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