From the book "growing up ethnic in america" how does the narrator in “looking for work” assimilate white culture?

In the story “Looking for Work” the narrator, Gary Soto believes at young age that based off of TV white family culture is formal, clean, and organized; as compared to his family which he depicts as informal, unclean, rude, and dysfunctional. Thinking it would make turn his family into the proper family he watches, Soto goes looking for work to become wealthy but ends up finding the unrealism in his perspectives through his mother and siblings and instead just keeps working because he likes it.  

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