To begin, over the course of time, society has grown to cooperate as assimilation is inevitable. In his essay “Blaxicans,” Richard Rodriguez asserts that assimilation happens spontaneously (17). For instance, throughout the piece, Rodriguez uses anecdotes to exemplify his personal encounters of assimilation such as his experience in Merif, Calif, in which he talks to the Laotian kids about why they do not like the Mexican kids. They claim about how the Mexicans do this and the Mexicans do not do that, when Rodriguez suddenly realizes that they were speaking English with a Spanish accent (18).This portrays that despite how the two races found conflict with each other, they still impacted the other in some way, thus resulting in the incident
