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Comparing Juan Seguin's Foreigners In Their Own Land And Film

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They are two different regions of people that assimilated into someone’s else society. According to the information given in the book Foreigners in Their own land and the film given in this class assimilation is when someone gradually adopts characteristics of another group. For example, when adopting their culture, language, religion all customs that the other group fallows. As the examples I’ll be providing in the next paragraph, Mexicans adopted Anglos characteristics and the Americans adopted the Mexicans customs. The examples are in two different states far away from each other.

One of the examples presented is Juan Seguin, he was a Mexican that lived in San Antonio. Seguin a third generation Tejano and son of a leading Mexican family in San Antonio, Texas that traced back to the earliest settlements in 1712. In the early 1830s Juan Seguin was starting to identify himself as a Tejano and called himself John Seguin and in 1833 he became a mayor of San Antonio. Seguin and his father saw the importance of the Anglo American settlement in Texas to the development of this frontier as Mexico City didn’t send the resources to properly develop the region. Little by little they started to adopt the customs and believes of the Anglos, especially after Santa Anna took possession of the town. The Anglo American help Seguin in the war at El Alamo, ironically the Anglos help him fight against his own people and after the devastation of all the innocent men killed, Seguin joined General Sam Houston army of the republic of Texas at the battle of San Jacinto the Texas Revolution. After that Seguin was named military commander of West Texas, elected …show more content…

In Texas the Mexicans were adapting to the Anglos as Juan Seguin was one of those people that did adopted their culture. In California was the Americans adopting and following the Mexican culture and

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