And it is Chicano nationalism, as laid out later in Gonzales's poem, which embodies this defining impossibility. This contradictory fusion can be seen in the role of Christianity in Mexican American culture. Here we have the syncretism crucial to Chicano iconography, whereby the Aztec deities are transformed into, yet continue to co-exist alongside, Catholic saints. Depending on the time and place. In a country that has placed a Different weight of indignity upon My Age- Old Burdened back.
Inferiority Is the new load . . . .
I look at myself and see part of me who rejects my father and my mother and dissolves into the melting pot to disappear in shame. In society's own name. I must fight and win this struggle for my sons, and they must know from me who I am. The smell of chile verde and Soft brown eyes of expectation for a Better life. Or whatever I call myself, I look the same I feel the same I cry And Sing the same.