Personal Narrative: I Am A Minority Mexican-American

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That one GIRL: ME
Who am I? It’s the same question everyone has about themselves, but do you ever have an answer for that? Do you know who you actually are? I just know I’m an average Chicana Mexican-American from a minority group, but what makes me different are the family values that my parents taught me. Which helps me do better in life, like not caring what society labels me, but knowing who I am, and never forgetting where I came from, because that’s what makes me…me. And that I should try my best in everything and anything I do if I really want to prove who I am, because I’M a Minority Chicana Mexican-American whom loves to learn, work hard and is bilingual.
You may ask what’s being a minority Chicana Mexican-American? Well a minority for me is being part of an ethnic group who are non-white, but yet the population keeps growing more than the “white/American”. Even though in google definition it mentions that “is the smaller number or part, especially a number that is less than half the whole number (source a)”. Chicana in my own word is being born in Chicago region, but having a Mexican origin, as in, for urban
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I have two languages I speak, Spanish and English, one I use it to communicate with my family and the other one to communicate with mostly anyone. I understand that they’re some people that have Hispanic/Latino origin, but are not bilingual. Also, they’re people who offend other person’s who are or are not bilingual, nobody is ever happy about how other people are. I just think they should accept each other, but in order to make that happen, everyone should be happy of who they are and don’t let other people offences get to you. Society should just stop judging other people identity. But would it ever happen? For me anybody who tries to put me down, I won’t let it happen because you never know how strong you are until you eat a spicy pepper, and I’m strong

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