Robert Lopez

“I’m not sure if this is assimilation, if all this was part of it and this is how other people have experienced it, too. That assimilation has always required that one believed the old country was old and left behind for a reason, and we must never speak of it because we are Americans now, which means we speak perfect English at all times and never Spanish at home or anywhere else and our history is the Revolution and Valley Forge and the Battle of Gettysburg and four score to seven years ago our fathers who art in heaven do highly resolve that these dead should not have died in vain, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under hamburgers and strip malls with peace and injustice for all.”
― Robert Lopez, Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure