"From Mexico's Children"

Richard Rodriguez's essay "From 'Mexico's Children'" is a short, heart felt essay focusing on the dilemmas that Mexican-Americans, and other minority groups face, in America. We claim ourselves to be a place that is open and welcoming to all people, no matter race, gender, religious preferences, etc. A "Melting Pot" of sorts. However, shouldn't we, instead of contradicting ourselves, embrace people of different cultures and backgrounds? Rather than pushing for them to assimilate to our ways. We may not come right out and say that necessarily, but through out actions and gestures with each other we almost say everything we need to to get that message across. Rodriguez does a terrific job of getting this point across with his very last line, "[My father] went downtown to the Federal Building in Sacramento and disappeared into America". That's a very choice way of putting, the typically thought of as celebratory, 'American dream'. This story gives great insight to the lack of identity that I think Rodriguez and minorities alike may be feeling in America. Especially those who immigrated.