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Summary Of So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans By Jimmy Santiago Baca

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In “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans,” by Jimmy Santiago Baca, there are many references to the lives of minorities. One stanza shows the general theme of minorities in America, representing all minorities, not just the one being described, and even the abundance of the majority.“I see this, and I hear only a few people/ got all the money in this world, the rest/ count their pennies to buy bread and butter”( Line 30-33). This quote describes the struggle that Americans experience every daily living paycheck to paycheck. It does not only give an example of the Mexican minority, but every racial and ethnic group in America, with exception to the few wealthier people who have “got all the money in this world”(Line 32). The gap between
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