Richard Rodriguez Analysis

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Richard Rodriguez begins the argument by stating that a wave of immigrants is taking over America. He also states that the variety of different races and cultures that are entering our borders today are being classified in limited category’s. Rodriguez talks about how Americans have always (divided the conversation into a black-and-white conversation)., Richard also states that this limited categories don’t represent the real culture of the people and that the classifications like Hispanics is a culture all its own. Richard also tell us that the president Richard Nixon was responsible for classifying all races into the limited categories that we all know today. Richard also talks about how other can adapted a culture after living in it for

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