In Richard Rodriguez's essay “Blaxicans” and other Reinvented Americans, Rodriguez uses irony to support his main claim that identity is changeable because he exaggerates what he is saying with what it actually means. During an interview with Bill Mayers, Rodriguez was asked what he thought about himself, either American or Hispanic. Rodriguez responded “ I am Chinese, and that is because I live in a Chinese city and because I want to be Chinese. Well, why not? Some Chinese American people in the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco sometimes paint their houses (so many qualifiers!) in colors I would once have described as garish: lime greens, rose reds, pumpkin, But I have lived in a Chinese city for so long that my eye has taken
