Progressive Assimilation Across GenerationsMexicans are not the first immigrant group to experience assimilation problems. One newspaper claims that the assimilation of Mexicans is more successful than that of many other immigrant groups in the past. Tyler Cowen, a professor at George Washington University, says tracking Mexican immigrant families over 3 to 4 decades provides a clear, concise model for how well they assimilate. The first family members to arrive on American soil assimilate slowly, but each subsequent generation becomes more American due to language, wages, and even divorce rates. His article details how Mexicans are on a faster path of assimilation than Italians, Irish, Poles, etc. in the early 1900s. He mentions a study that measures variables such as wages, property ownership, family size, crime rates and languages ​​spoken. When comparing Cowen's research with Sandra Cisneros' novel The House On Mango Street, many similarities emerge, including the generation gap between older and younger Mexicans. The study supports this essay's assertion that Esperanza is able to assimilate into culture without losing her own identity or falling into typical gender roles defined by tradition. The ability to assimilate is not limited to speaking the language; assimilation is living comfortably among natives and immigrants without feeling targeted or segregated. The House on Mango Street begins with Esperanza's large family moving from a rented apartment to their own house. She is unhappy with the one-bedroom house and thinks it is overcrowded. Living there isn't as shameful as the apartment they came from, but the house is not something Esperanza wants to declare...... middle of paper ...... Pedraza, " Women and migration: the social consequences of Gender”, Annual Review Of Sociology 17 (1991): 303-325. Cisneros, 44. David G Gutiérrez, “Social Polarization and Colonized Labor: Puerto Ricans In the United States, 1945-2000,” in The Columbia History Of Latinos in the United States since 1960, ed. Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles and Gladys M. Jimenez Munoz (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 87-145. Gutiérrez, 106-107. John J Macisco Jr. “Assimilation of Puerto Ricans on the Mainland: A Socio-Approach demographic”, International Migration Review 2 (1968) 21-39.Macisco, 30.Macisco, 21.Marysol W. Asencio, “Machos and Sluts: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence Among a Cohort of Puerto Rican Adolescents”, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13 (1999):107-126.Marysol W. Asencio, 120.Marysol W. Asencio, 116.Cisneros, Section 27.