This was depicted in Ernesto Galarza’s Barrio Boy, which described the difficulty in regards to the assimilation from Mexican American culture to American culture. Galarza declared, “Although we, the foreigners, made up the majority of the population of Sacramento, the Americans had by no means given it up to us. Not all of them moved above Fifth Street as the barrio became crowded” (194). This signified that Americans displayed no sense of hospitality toward immigrants, and were unwilling to provide them with the basic necessity of
This was depicted in Ernesto Galarza’s Barrio Boy, which described the difficulty in regards to the assimilation from Mexican American culture to American culture. Galarza declared, “Although we, the foreigners, made up the majority of the population of Sacramento, the Americans had by no means given it up to us. Not all of them moved above Fifth Street as the barrio became crowded” (194). This signified that Americans displayed no sense of hospitality toward immigrants, and were unwilling to provide them with the basic necessity of