However, by reading and engaging with various literature on American society, I can understand the culture from how the past and the present. For instance, identifying someone as an Asian may insinuate a mixed-race because of the history conquest, but identifying them as an American brings up the idea of integrating race and identity through the long history of immigration, expansion, and slavery that has shaped the United States (Salter et al., 2018). Reading and engaging promote a reflective identity-building process where an