Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural, able to slip from "How's life?"<br> to "Me'stan volviendo loca," able to sit in a paneled office drafting memos in smooth English, able to order in fluent Spanish at a Mexican restaurant, American but hyphenated, viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic, perhaps inferior, definitely different, viewed by Mexicans as alien, (their eyes say, "You may speak Spanish but you're not like me") an American to Mexicans a Mexican to Americans a handy token sliding back and forth between the fringes of both worlds by smiling by masking the discomfort of being pre-judged Bi-laterally.

American but hyphenated, viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic

Bi-Lingual, Bi-Cultural able to slip from "How's life?" to "Me'stan volviendo loca"