Reflective Essay: I Am Mexican American

Being a Mexican American, you are born and raised in the United States with Mexican blood. At home you live in your deep Mexican culture and at school you’re surrounded by American culture. With my Spanish not being perfect and neither is my English. Many from my culture judge me for loving the US, and many Americans criticize me for being “too Mexican.” I’m torn between two worlds of a deep rooted culture and a new founded one. I am not from here nor there, I am Mexican American. My life is involved in a constant conflict, in love with both cultures; both are a part of me. Yet defining my identity is hard to do.

For me, my culture is everything. I am Hispanic and in love with Mexican food and any opportunity I get to speak in Spanish I do, because it helps me feel connected to my home. Yet I am a Hispanic girl who isn’t …show more content…
Being born in an immigrant family my life is normal to me, but as I meet new people every day I realized that my family leads a different life. I never took notice that we always couldn’t afford the luxuries that my friends could, but I was okay with that. I never noticed that my mother 3 jobs to feed our family and my father worked all night just to pay the rent, I wasn’t okay with that. I did notice that they would tell me every night that I needed an education so I wouldn’t have to go through the same pain and labor. Even when I would get a bad grade or I would get tired from studying they would tell me that one day it would all pay off. My cultures may tear me apart but my family keeps me together. Yet my where I come from does not define who I will become as a person and my culture is a big part of me. Viola Davis once said “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.” Intellectually I know that my culture is a part of me which is why I still adore