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An 8 page paper which examines the condition of assimilation in the Mexican culture in the United States. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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new culture is something that demands a certain level of strength, and also something that ultimately demands one adjust their own identity as they seek to fit into the new
society. The following paper examines the condition of assimilation into the United States as it involves Mexicans. Assimilation: Mexicans in the United States In one of the most
powerful novels about assimilation, "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent," one can find good examples of the problems of assimilation for Latino individuals. The girls in this particular story,
though not from Mexico, illustrate some of the same issues to be considered for they are Latino and in relationship to the culture of the United States they are generally
lumped together with Mexicans and other Latino cultures. One of the girls in the story, at one point, illustrates her fear of making a speech in the class: "But the
spectre of delivering a speech brown-nosing the teachers jammed her imagination...She should have thought of it as a great honor, as her father called it. But she was mortified. She
still had a slight accent and, and she did not like to speak in public, subjecting herself to her classmates ridicule....She didnt know how to get out of it" (Alvarez
141). In this one can readily understand how her accent, also the title of the novel, is one of her biggest concerns in relationship to assimilating into the culture.
If she has no accent she can be easily taken for a "real" citizen of the nation and not the first generation. Her accent gives her away as being "other"
in the United States culture and she understands this powerful condition. In seeking identity, and worried about her accent, she is also clearly concerned about "brown-nosing" teachers and how
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