Auer, Peter. Code-Switching in Conversation. Routledge, 1998. Barreto, Matt, and Gary Segura. Latino America: How America’s Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation.

In fact, language mixture is a central feature of Latinx speech in the United States; in research on the subject, the terms language-mixing and code-switching are typically treated as synonymous.

Code switching prevents people from feeling like they can be themselves, but culture coding is a heightened form of situational awareness that taps into the multidimensional nature of our true selves.