“Again?” I curiously yet angrily ask. “He’s a boy, that’s what they do” my mother replies. “I’m older than him yet you don’t give me nearly as much freedom, I don’t think it’s fair” I nervously reply. “You’re place is at home with me, not in the streets simply because you’re a girl and your brother is a boy and you know that” she calmly says to me.
My whole childhood was built around the idea that men are superior to women especially in a Mexican household. Men are stronger. Men are smarter. Men get high paying jobs or careers. Men get to go out and come back home whenever they feel like it. Women on the other hand stay at home. Women do the cooking. Women do the cleaning. Women are only good to have babies. Women don’t get higher education and certainly don’t get high paying jobs or careers. I spent a big part of my childhood upset because I felt as if my brother was getting better treatment than me. I accepted the way my life was set up simply because I didn’t have enough courage to question the ways of my culture especially not after my parents had been raised with that same mindset and set of values.
However, I undoubtedly started growing up and I began to develop my own ways of seeing things. I no longer allowed my parents to see me nor …show more content…
I do, in the other hand, think that culture and heritage should be like an open door policy where people have the power to choose what aspects they want to let in and embrace. All too often, specifically speaking for Mexicans, culture and heritage is extremely significant and respected which is why it’s often perceived as being impeccable or the only right way of doing things. That is where the problem is. Parents often install culture and heritage into their children at a very young age and as a result they limit themselves into seeing things in black and white when the world is full of
My whole childhood was built around the idea that men are superior to women especially in a Mexican household. Men are stronger. Men are smarter. Men get high paying jobs or careers. Men get to go out and come back home whenever they feel like it. Women on the other hand stay at home. Women do the cooking. Women do the cleaning. Women are only good to have babies. Women don’t get higher education and certainly don’t get high paying jobs or careers. I spent a big part of my childhood upset because I felt as if my brother was getting better treatment than me. I accepted the way my life was set up simply because I didn’t have enough courage to question the ways of my culture especially not after my parents had been raised with that same mindset and set of values.
However, I undoubtedly started growing up and I began to develop my own ways of seeing things. I no longer allowed my parents to see me nor …show more content…
I do, in the other hand, think that culture and heritage should be like an open door policy where people have the power to choose what aspects they want to let in and embrace. All too often, specifically speaking for Mexicans, culture and heritage is extremely significant and respected which is why it’s often perceived as being impeccable or the only right way of doing things. That is where the problem is. Parents often install culture and heritage into their children at a very young age and as a result they limit themselves into seeing things in black and white when the world is full of