Identity, and why he has chosen to embrace American culture and the American dream.

Movie Analysis on Race and Ethnicity

In this movie author and American culture analyst Richard Rodriguez talks about his own experience growing up in America with a Mexican-American background.

He discusses the plight of Latinos and minorities in general in the American experience, how his religion connects him to his heritage, how he forms his own identity by integrating parts of the Mexican and parts of the American identity, and why he has chosen to embrace American culture and the American dream.

His analysis is mostly from his own perspective, but he sometimes generalizes about his culture and the experience of other minority groups.