1. I was born to Latino parents; my mother is Puerto Rican and my father is Mexican. However, throughout most my childhood life I was raised here in California surrounded by my father’s side of the family and the Mexican American culture. Nevertheless, it wasn’t until I was eleven years old that we took a family vacation to Puerto Rico over the Thanksgiving holiday that I was able to experience the Puerto Rican culture. At that time when people would ask me my ethnicity I would always only say Mexican. It wasn’t because I was ashamed of being Puerto Rican, on the other hand, that’s all I ever knew and was raised mainly on Mexican traditions. It wasn’t until I spent a few weeks in Puerto Rico that increased my sense of pride of being a Puerto Rican. I was able to meet my other side of the family and experience the Puerto Rican culture and traditions, such as rituals, preparing a variety of meals, the way people carry themselves, their way of communicating and respecting others. Now I proudly say I
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My boyfriend and I come from different racial backgrounds. I am Hispanic and he is Caucasian, so when I first went to go meet his family there were some stereotypical comments made about my ethnicity. For example, since I am Hispanic they assumed that my skin was dark colored, that I dressed a certain way and that my family was low-class. Although, I am Hispanic my skin is very light, in fact almost all of my family has light-colored skin and many of my cousins have colored eyes. This made me feel very angry. The fact that they thought I would have dark colored skin didn’t matter so much to me; however, the fact that they had made a comment about my family’s economic status bothered me. But instead of responding disrespectfully I responded by actually explaining to them what my parents’ professions’ were and by doing that I could tell that I changed their views on Hispanics and they hopefully would never make another stereotypical assumption like that to another
My boyfriend and I come from different racial backgrounds. I am Hispanic and he is Caucasian, so when I first went to go meet his family there were some stereotypical comments made about my ethnicity. For example, since I am Hispanic they assumed that my skin was dark colored, that I dressed a certain way and that my family was low-class. Although, I am Hispanic my skin is very light, in fact almost all of my family has light-colored skin and many of my cousins have colored eyes. This made me feel very angry. The fact that they thought I would have dark colored skin didn’t matter so much to me; however, the fact that they had made a comment about my family’s economic status bothered me. But instead of responding disrespectfully I responded by actually explaining to them what my parents’ professions’ were and by doing that I could tell that I changed their views on Hispanics and they hopefully would never make another stereotypical assumption like that to another