Immigrants..

The poem "Immigrants" was a very well written poem by Pat Mora. This poem brings attention to american immigrants who are replacing their traditional culture with traditional North American culture. "Wrap their babies in the American flag, feed them mashed hot dogs and apple pie." These immigrants want to live the american dream and fit in with the more common culture, when immigrants devote all their time to trying to embrace american culture they rarely find time to teach their traditional culture to their children, as a result their culture gets left behinds and is not passed on to the next generation causing that particular culture to die within that particular family. " Will they like our boy, our girl, our fine american boy, our fine american girl?" Many immigrants betray their own culture in hopes to fit in with society hoping the will feel more accepted.