Reflection on Munoz

I think the consequences in assimilating To “American” culture is that it slowly makes you forget your roots. I think once you cross the border you are tied down to what you were taught back in your motherland, but once you cross I feel its slowly changing you as a person. As the years go by you forget were you came from, sometimes your language and your culture. Also by assimilating to the American society you kind of give in to what the society norm in America wants to see. In America you need to be a whole different person, a person needs who needs to start their life as a whole different person with a whole different name. I think when you cross America it strips everything you stood for and it slowly manipulates you to become another of the low paying minorities, who later on are blamed for taking “all” the jobs in this land. For example, my mother once had this job cleaning law offices, primarily filled with Anglo Americans. I remember when I use to go with her to work they people that worked in the office would call my mom Mary. I first I was dumbfounded I didn’t understand why they were calling my mother Mary if her name is Maria. They changed her name without my mothers consent. Even though I was still a child I question why do they, they as the people who worked in the office have the right to change someone’s name, they had no right. But its that feeling of being superior than others, that makes them feel they have that divine right to do so. The consequence of assimilating to America are many, but as minority we need to know when we are assimilating to much to a society that just wants us to be their puppets.