Rodriguez was interviewed by J.A Marzan, who wrote an article called “The art of being Richard Rodriguez” which stated that Rodriguez was Mexican but that he did not consider himself that way. He considers himself Mexican American because he lives in America. Marzan stated, “He began his remaking of himself until, as a highly educated adult, he no longer considered himself Chicano or Mexican or a member of that ‘disadvantaged’ class understood by minority” (46). In this part, it seems that Rodriguez dislikes Mexicans because they are a ‘minority’.
In the essay, Rodriguez stated that “I am a traitor, a sell-out. The Spanish word is a pocho. A pocho is someone who forgets his true home” (729). What he means would be that he does not want to