Phi Delta Kappan, December 1st, 1994
It is important for Mexican Americans to accept the fact that they are a unique group at a crossroads.
I WAS born in the U.S.A., but I was born a Mexican. However, at the moment I arrived, I was not labeled as such by the doctor who delivered me. Nor did my mother and father cry out in triumph that yet another Mexican had entered the world. No, I only slowly came to the realization of who I was, in the same way all my friends did.
In the beginning I learned to be a Mexican from my relatives. We all ate the same food, and we ate it the same way. For instance, we had tortillas, frijoles, tam...
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