Richard Rodriguez can attest to that fact in his piece "Memoir of a Bilingual Child". Here Richard feels that in becoming an American he is losing his Mexican culture. ... Through this quote Rodriguez shows us the perspective that in order to considered an American he had to sacrifice his original culture. ... "The overwhelming majority shares a fear that America is being Balkanized; 80 percent of whites, 86 percent of blacks and 74 percent of Hispanics are concerned that America is increasingly divided along ethnic and cultural lines. ... America has always been seen as a '...

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