The Chicano people are lost in their identity as both Mexican and American people. In the 1960s there was a rise in Chicano literature in response to social and political changes in society. Chicano literature is often misunderstood due to cultural ambivalence: “Cultural ambivalence can be defined as an attitude that expresses the diverse nature of the Chicano experience in American society. It expresses the central dilemma of the Chicano who is aware of being a product of both Mexican and American culture” (Treviño 1). Chicano literature embraces the cultural ambivalence that exists only in both cultures. In the United States, literature that has Mexican traditions or representations but is still set in America, making it relatable to all American citizens. In reference to Maria Cristina Mena's “Popo Education,” “Mena directly interprets the Chicano experience from this double consciousness that incorporates elements of both the dominant culture and its subculture. The theme of this satirical narrative is the conflict that results when the value systems of Mexican culture are contrasted with those of Anglo-American culture” (Treviño 1). The drift between cultures highlights the isolation Chicanos face in a literary social protest. The Chicano literary movement has helped American society by taking a stand on not belonging to one culture and the beauty that can come from a different culture. “Don José María is similarly characterized as representative of a unique cultural experience in the Southwest that early Chicano authors like Jovita González are attempting to define. The narrator states, "Monotonous and uninteresting from the outside, his house was the center of border culture: not the culture of Mexico, not the culture of the United States, but a culture peculiar to the