Have you ever wondered what means to be a good citizen? This question brings to my mind the famous quote "Ask not what you country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" (President John F. Kennedy, 1961). In other words, it is not what you expect on your nation, authorities, or community; it is what you can make for them. There are many opinions about how a good citizen can help to his country instead what the country should do for a citizen. Being a good citizen plus being immigrant is a full of a series of characteristics which you need to fill in order to be achieved. A correct model of citizenship is who develops a consistent passion and an inexhaustible determination of citizen (President Obama, 2013). To raise this paper, I will cite two citizens who are immigrants and also citizens, in this country, Cesar E. Chavez and Robert "Bob" Menendez. In order to clarify how they contribute as a good citizen, I will emphasize in three important aspects which have helped them to be successful, such as submit to the regulations, care about others, and contribute in the community. .
Cesar E. Chavez was born on March 31, 1927. He was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) (United Farm Workers, 2006). As a Mexican-American, Chavez became the best known Latino American civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic members. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. By the late 1970s, his tactics had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for 50,000 field workers in California and Florida (United Farm Workers, 2006). Add to this, in Oregon, professors funded the first four-year Mexican-American college what was called Cesar Chavez College in his honor.
