This explanation dives into the understanding of Mexicans from an American perspective. Being 3rd generation American Mexican provided me with an outlook on both the identity of being Mexican and the identity of being Mexican-American and the identity of being American. This is why it is so hard for Mexicans to unit in America, we have a lot of identities and only one understand of the story. Growing up the amount of times that someone asked about the place I was "from" made me realized they were trying to identify me as something other than American give it that being their purpose or not because in America, Americans are taught that Mexicans live the life of the "other." Feeling like a minorities in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Antonio makes no sense since those are cities our ancestors named.
