The person I am today has been shaped by the environment in which I was raised in, my racial identity and the personality I have developed through experience. I was born in Mexico in 1999 and moved to the US at the age of one because my parents wanted to give me the best life possible and they believed that living in the US was the best way to do so. I was raised in an all spanish speaking home and I learned english at school at the age of 5. As a child I struggled with accepting my identity because I was raised with two different cultures, an American culture at school and a Mexican culture at home. At school I was judges for listening to spanish music and speaking with a spanish accent in english. At home I would feel guilty for enjoying
