Resonse to "On Being A Mexican American"

Joe I. Mendoza is a Mexican American and he feels as if he has drifted away from his Mexican Culture since he started living among more European American people. He was not just removed from his culture, but he was forced to do it in order to try to become someone in life. He mentions lots of stories of how he used to be part of a group of Mexicans and how he had to move and change his ways. He also mentions one of the most segregated things I have hear, where as there was an actual line on the ground that he could not cross. Then he realized he was treated differently, but did not seem to bother him much.
He seemed to be very close to his grandmother and he tells us a story of him standing up for himself because of what he thought he was forced to do was unfair. He stood up to his grandmother and he was not able to win the arguments even if it meant running away. He was "beaten" by his grandma for not wanting to do the work. He had decided that he needed to do that in order to be a man.
He was involved in many other things in his life that made him change like the Army and going to school was the biggest part. He omce went back to a get together and when he tried to shake hands with an old friend he was not able to get the hand shake right. Usually that hand shake was natural but to him it was no more. I guess he had forgotten the small things that helped him in being a Mexican and was more of an American after.