People become part of you, if you get to know them enough. And try to. The more you try to get to know people you don't like, the more cultured you'll become. People come into the U.S. from different ways, it was so easy to get here, before all these immigration laws. The only problem was crossing the Mississippi. The waters are warm on the east coast, so it was easy for the Puerto Ricans to swim to Amsterdam, NY.