According to the preface “Thinking Critically, Challenging Cultural Myths” to the ninth edition of the textbook, Rereading America is written by Bedford/St. Martin's Press, is edited by Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle and published in 2008. It introduces how to become a critical reader and challenges us to think critically. To fully understand what critical thinking is, the introduction is divided into different sections to understand step by step how to be a critical thinker. The author provides some tips for college students to actively read by taking notes and writing comments. To be a critical thinker, the author emphasizes that reading is meaningful and that reading deeply comes close to critical thinking. (Change) Translating to college, it requires huge differences from high school because it requires college students to be independent and increases competition, temptation, and expectation. Students feel stressed and have to contend with tons of college standards and rules. In "Thinking Critically, Challenging Cultural Myths" he demonstrates that college students not only understand meaning well, but also understand the implications of reading. This shows that college students are able to achieve the author's main idea. What is critical thinking? A critical thinker has the ability to cultivate and highlight different perspectives that can shape a new idea and not previous knowledge. The author uses the rereading of the title between a Salvadoran student and the native student as an example. According to this example, it shows that critical thinking is not natural. While both students read this as common sense, El Salvador has its own perspective and emphasizes America in an ethnocentric view… in the center of the paper… keeps the student actively reading. As a result, students follow higher requirements that can become the best active reading. In working with visual images, the author states that visual images can help readers read lucidly because first impressions are significant and influence readers' views on contexts. The author explains that readers need to look at them over and over again as possible, because different perspectives can emerge each time they look at the images. Questioning yourself when looking at the image, visual images are considered an element of critical thinking. The myth of the “American family” is an example of this. It is discussed that the American family leads us to look beyond the surface of appearance and analyzes the relationship between people and family. Working with visual images means having access to multiple perspectives and thinking critically.