He is a Mexican-American citezen who moved to the US while growing up. His family lives in a neighborhood surrounded by americans, they are the only Latinos in the street. When Richard started school he realized that moving from his country was very sad, because now he needed to get used to different culture, characteristics, and a lot of other facts.
He was on a Catholic school, with teachers that were nuns. These nuns went to his house to talk to his parents about his English speaking part and they made the family start speaking english in the home too, because Richard didn't spoke English at the school. This change made Richard learn English and also able to answer questions in the classroom. The language represented a boundary for him as to his parents, because his other two brothers were able to speak English well.
Something that never changed at home was their believes and their customs. the Virgen de Guadalupe was always going to be their saint. God was always the one who guided their lives on the right way. Everything he did, he made it in name of Jesus Christ, our father.
Something that really took my attention was the chapter about the professional life. Here comes the biggest problem that the United States of America has, and it is the Racism. When they offered opportunities of job to people, they prefer the white than the black and latino people. Probably is because of the image, or because those people think that we are not intelligent or educated and that's very bad. I think that now we should start trying to change people's mind and make them realize that we are all the same, humans. We can all think, work, act, move, pay, and do whatever we want to do, because we should have the same rights in all the world.
This book identifies myself a lot. It's just because of that both us come from other country, and getting used to other cultures is not easy, it takes long to feel comfortable with all the american society.
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