In attempting to discuss the history of Chicanos, or Mexican-Americans, and their experiences in the United States, an economic analysis may provide the best interpretation of their failure to achieve status of first class citizens. This difficulty in achieving equality of citizenship is deeply rooted both in the economic interest of Anglo-Americans and in their intrinsic perception of otherness in Chicanos. This article will explain the importance of this story and its context in the American framework. Beginning with the Chicano experience of the precolonial period and continuing through the Mexican-American War, analyzing in particular the mercantilist policies that drove colonization, along with the principles of self-interest that brought many Anglos to Texas and resulted in the war. Below, the period between the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupa Hidalgo and the Second World War, strongly characterized by the Anglocapitalist industrialization of the early 20th century, and its subsequent effect on the development of the Chicano condition, will be carefully studied. . It then culminates in the Chicano resistance movements that began after World War II through today, with emphasis on events such as Cesar Chavez's grape strike in 1968, which brought national recognition to the Chicano situation largely through economic means. In light of the revisionist satirical comedies of the Teatro Campesino, "Los Vendidos", a short play by Luis Valdez, will offer a conclusive vision of the lived experience of Mexican-Americans according to one of them. The Latino@ population in the United States is growing in exponentially, "Nearly two-thirds of Latinos in the United States are of Mexican descent" (Vargas... middle of paper... for the state governor who wants to buy one as a pledge 'Chicano' cites the fact that there is a request for a dark face in the crowd. Valdez's interpretation of the various ethnic roles and stereotypes assigned to Chicanos is right. His intelligent use of humor and intellect make it a credible case is seen the way the population 'American' attempted to mold and change the Chicano so that he could become a "...bilingual, college-educated, ambitious, say the word 'cultured' and he speeds up. He's smart, polite, and clean." 48) Valdez concludes that to form this Mexican-American robot model they had to fuse two Pachucos, a farm worker, and three gabachos. This synthesis of the Mexican type is what makes him essentially American, because he can no longer maintain his identity as a Chicano type..