Moreover, present-day generational Mexican Americans are perceived to be greater assimilated, monolingual, multigenerational units who prefer the grander ways of American life above the simplistic virtues of Mexican culture (Chavez-Reyes, 2010, pp. 24-25). Generational Mexican Americans, although retaining to the obligations and loyalties to family and religion, have also extended themselves to prefer certain dine and wine, language, and social and cultural patterns of the American identity (Chavez, 2010, p. 25). However, given the diversity of the Mexican American community and the dual nature of their struggle, the lack in uniformity among the interplay between generational Mexican Americans and their educational progress indicates for further
