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I disagree with this statement because the person may not ever was to adapt to the culture nor can change it. Alexie states, "Indian women, forgive me/ I grew up distant/and always afraid° (Alexie 11-13). This shows that he regrets not wanting to be involve with his culture and wants forgiveness

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I disagree that assimilation happens because an individual may not want to change or give up their culture. It is difficult to change just because other people may not want to accept other cultures. Assimilation can not occur if they don't want to change. In "Indian Boy Love Song #2", the boy in the poem feels unaccepted because he doesn't know the language that his mother has been trying to teach him, therefore, he feels unaccepted. The speaker begins apologizing to his ancestors and explaining his past feelings when he says, "Indian women, forgive me./ I grew up distant/ And always afraid" (Alexie 11-13). This proves that it is hard to change and can be overwhelming.

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I disagree with this statement because if one doesn't want to adapt to a culture then they won't do it. They could be embarrassed of the culture or just afraid that they won't speak the language correctly or something like that.

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I disagree with the statement "assimilation happens" because not everybody's the same and not everybody willing to change themselves just to adapt.

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I disagree that assimilation happens because this only happens when assimilation happens only when one wants to change

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I disagree that assimilation happens because it only happens when an Individual wants to change or adapt to a change.

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I disagree that assimilation happens because Assimilation only occurs or happens when one wants to have the ability to change. There cannot be assimilation if there is no change.

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Rodriguez doesn't necessarily states that assimilation always happens, or will eventually happen to every individual, he simply claims it does and will occur at some point and another. A scenario of an immigrant being stubborn and unwilling to accept a new culture does not disprove Rodriguez's claim, as it does not extend to all individuals, only that at some point or another, assimilation happens. Rodriguez emphasizes that his claim is more of a recognition than a claim, "If I had a bumper sticker on the subject, it might read something like ASSIMILATION HAPPENS." (Rodriguez 144)

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I disagree with that statement because assimilation only occurs when people are willing to accept new culture. In the poem, "Indian Boy Love Song" by Sherman Alexie, the speaker is a boy who is seeking forgiveness for abandoning his Indian heritage, "Indian women forgive me/I grew up distant" (Alexie 11-12). The speaker pushed away his heritage and became distant from it, which indicates how assimilation cannot happen if people do not want to change.

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I disagree that assimilation happens because there are many people that are not willing to give up their cultural traditions or become a different person than who they are inside. In Sherman Alexie's "Indian Boy Love Song #2," the speaker apologizes for apologizes for not realizing sooner that he wanted to take part in his culture. Sherman states, "Indian women, forgive me," (Alexie 11). This demonstrates that not everyone will change who they are and that they will continue being culturally diverse from others.

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I agree with Rodriguez because I think we are all naturally born into a race and cannot just chose a different one when you feel like it.

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I disagree that assimilation happens because there's a lot of people who doesn't have an open-mind to other cultures other than their own and proceed to ignore it and say that they shouldn't exist.

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I disagree with the statement "assimilation happens" because we humans already have the trait of learning how to adapt wherever we are, that motive to adapt to something new is already within us.

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I disagree with the idea that assimilation happened because some aren't open minded and prefer to think they are right and stick to their ideas and try to get others to believe the same thing.

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I agree with this claim because we all feed of eachnother, we all learn new things from eachother, diffrent cultures, diffrent believes, but at the end of the day we learn something from it or we start to do something thats within thier culture.

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Jeffrey Morales: I agree with the statement, because every culture matters and everyone could learn different languages and cultures. Also it is beneficial that learning things could lead a good change. But the most important of Rodriguez's discussion is that if people interact with cultures and races it could lead to a good change in society.

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“ they were telling me that Mexicans do this and the Mexicans don’t do that, when suddenly I realized that they were speaking English with a Spanish accent “ (Rodriguez 91) I disagree with his claim because we all adapt habits sometimes from people around us that are from different cultures

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I agree with Rodriguez because i believe that the race or culture you were given at birth you cant really decide to change just out of the blue you may choose to say what you are but that won change youre real race or culture

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I agree with Rodriguez's claim that "Assimilation happens" because when my grandparents and mom moved here. They slowly started to adapt to the new language.

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I agree with Rodriguez that assimilation happens because when someone is born they are most likely born into the culture and will grow up with it and it'll become a part of them. They may do stuff differently than you and others. Alexie states "Indian women, forgive me/ I grew up distant/and always afraid° (Alexie 11-13). He was distant with his culture then realized he regretted not being apart of his culture.

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I agree with Rodriguez that assimilation happens because I remember going on trips to Indonesia to visit my mother's side of the family and I adapt to it pretty quickly. I remember the time where I did art on fabric which is called Batik and went on trips to the farmer market with my grandma every morning.

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I agree with Rodriguez that assimilation happens because from personal experience with going to Mexico in the summer I adapt to the culture very quick and when we come back there's still that need to adapt back to culture here in the US

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I agree with Rodriguez that assimilation does happen because when someone is in a new atmosphere where there is a different culture they will adapt to it. There is a chance they will start to dress differently, eat differently, speak differently etc.

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I believe assimilation does happen. It happens everyday. People travel around the world and adapting to cultures of that specific country. I've seen many people adapt to another culture because of their love for it. Other ways of it happening is where people come from different countries with different cultures. People tend to be amazed on how other cultures can be and decide to even be apart of it or adapt to that culture. In the argument "Blaxicans" Rodriguez states "I answered that I am
Chinese, and that is because I live in a Chinese city and because I want to be Chinese. Well, why not? Some Chinese American people in the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco sometimes paint their houses in colors." (Rodriguez 91) This shows how assimilation can happen how people from different cultures can adapt.

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I agree with Rodriguez that assimilation does happen because if someone moves to a location where they are not accustomed with the culture or way of living there they should learn about it in order to live in peace there. For example in the text of "Blaxicans and other Reinvented Americans" Rodriguez says,"For a country that has traditionally has taken it's understanding from community from blood and color, the new circumstance of so large a group of Americans identifying themselves by virtue of language or fashion or cuisine or literature is an extraordinary change, and a revolutionary one."(Rodriguez 90). In the text he explains that america has become accustomed to the many different cultures that live within it and other people that lived around those certain cultures had to become accustomed to them in order to live among each other. another example from a different text called "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan is when she says," I wanted to capture what language ability tests can never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, her rhythms of her speech, and the nature of her thoughts." (Tan 4). In the text Tan explains that she wanted to write something that her mother can read

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I agree assimilation happen because in life your going to reach a point where you feel that you just dont fit in, this may lead to you changing who you are because you dont feel good enough.

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I agree that assimilation happens because, people no matter who they are may want to change and in doing that they may not know that they are changing. As we went through "Mother Tongue" we were able to realize just how much Tan had changed up the way she spoke and not even the man whom she married could not notice the change in her Vocabulary.

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I agree that assimilation happens because people change to adapt in foreign places. People naturally change to fit in a society. It is inevitable to come across people who are unwilling to tolerate and understand people who are culturally different from them, so it forces people to change. In "Mother Tongue", Tan's mother experiences this firsthand when people disregard her due to her differences. Tan recalls, "the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not giver her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her" (Tan CR 14). Since Tan's mother doesn't speak English properly, people don't treat her the same as everyone else just because she's not the same as them.

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I think that assimilation did happen because someone could change very easily and they might not even notice it and continuously do it for years. For example, in "Mother Tongue" Tan did not notice that she switched from a formal to an "informal" English when talking to her mother until she read her mother a speech she wrote.

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As Rodriguez claims, assimilation isn't a singular decision or event, it is a fluid and slow process which eventually ends up taking place. To this extent, I agree with Rodriguez, in that living amongst another culture would naturally familiarize it, then it would begin influencing your own. Rodriguez provides his own example after making his statement, he recalls an instance of him talking to Laotian children, and how they were talking negatively about the Mexican kids in the neighborhood, Rodriguez had then noticed something about the Laotian kids, "I suddenly realized that they were speaking English with a Spanish accent." (Rodriguez 160)

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I agree with assimilation because when people adapt to the enviornment as time

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I agree with Rodriguez that assimilation happens because people will naturally adapt to the new environment as time goes by. People will act similar to the people that they live close to.

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I agree that assimilation happens because if someone were to live somewhere that they are not familiar with, they would have to adapt to the culture there to survive or fit in. For example, the text from Mother's Tongue states," My mother has long realized the limitations of her English as well" (Tan 13). The evidence from the essay shows that being Chinese, in order to live in America, she had to learn how to speak in English in order to adapt to live her life in America.

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I agree that Assimilation happens because people learn to adapt to others culture and life style.

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I agree that Assimilation happens due to how forigeners who move to other countries have to assmililate themselfs with the new culture they are surrounded in

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I agree that Assimilation happens because when people arrive in a new environment they tend to try and adapt to the culture around them.

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I agree with Rodriguez's claim because people are greatly influenced by their environment so they would adopt some of the culture around them. In the essay "Mother Tongue", Tan explains that her mother's English is perceived by others as "broken", but to Tan, "[her] mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue" (Tan CR 13). Despite learning a more formal English in school, she retains the capacity to fully understand her mother's English, which demonstrates how impacted people are by the culture around them and shows that assimilation happens because people adapt to their surroundings.

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I agree that assimilation happens because people feel as if they need to change themselves to fit in. People will start adapting to a different society without even realizing it. In "Mother Tongue," Tan recalls, "And it was perhaps the first time she heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her," (Tan CR11). This demonstrates that people begin to change certain things they do around different people so that they can fit in with whoever they are with. Assimilation does happen because people naturally adapt to society.

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I agree that assimilation happens because looking to society and America's culture it is seen that for the most part everyone speaks English and have most of the same experiences. In mother tongue the author states "And it was perhaps the first time she heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her," (Tan, 11). Even though Amy Tan