...Richard Rodriguez’s essay “ ‘Blaxicans’ and Other Reinvented Americans,” Rodriguez argues about cultures specifying a person’s identity. Using a race to base their identity as an non valid American life; he argues that a culture is what defines a person. In the essay, he illustrates, “Culture is fluid. Culture is smoke. You breathe it. You eat it. You can’t help it…”(134-137). Rodriguez uses the word “culture” to reveal how a person who moves to a new country can not help to adapt the culture or the tradition the commune celebrates. Usually, this is what happens, people want to blend in the community and make it seem as if they were born there. Another way Rodriguez’s argues that culture is a way to define themselves is through his own self....
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