This group of people assigned a specific name to identify their ethnicity. ‘Chicanos’ was the term they assigned to themselves, which it has the same definition as ‘Mexican-Americans’. George Sanchez explains that the culture concepts between Mexicans and Mexican-Americans was a problem since there was not an agreement between these groups. Mexicans had their Mexican culture and Americans had their own culture as well. However there existed two cultural poles: ‘Mexicano’ which is was considered as the Old World ethnic and the other culture was the ‘Anglo United States’(Sanchez 5). Chicano stood as a subculture between these two cultures. Identity played a big role in Chicano’s mind because they did not know how to identify themselves, therefore they wanted to fight and gain
This group of people assigned a specific name to identify their ethnicity. ‘Chicanos’ was the term they assigned to themselves, which it has the same definition as ‘Mexican-Americans’. George Sanchez explains that the culture concepts between Mexicans and Mexican-Americans was a problem since there was not an agreement between these groups. Mexicans had their Mexican culture and Americans had their own culture as well. However there existed two cultural poles: ‘Mexicano’ which is was considered as the Old World ethnic and the other culture was the ‘Anglo United States’(Sanchez 5). Chicano stood as a subculture between these two cultures. Identity played a big role in Chicano’s mind because they did not know how to identify themselves, therefore they wanted to fight and gain