Growing Up In Mexico

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People from Mexico, India, China, Philippines, and Vietnam are the ones who mainly live for accomplish the ‘American Dream’ an ordinary meaning for "the dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each.”(The American Dream). The United States is the top country to accomplish this idealism; Mexico is the country geographically under the U.S. what means that they are close to each other and it is strange how countries can be so close to each other but they still having so many differences. Growing up in Mexico is amazing, is a country that has rich culture, traditions, foods, and history, although the economy has never been good enough and it is when the people grow up and realize that life is not a fairy tale and if you want to be …show more content…
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists” said Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second U.S. President (Quotes about Immigration). This is a significant quote to the fact that at least about 7% of Kindergarten through 12 year students had at least one unauthorized immigrant parent, based in data realized in 2012.(What We Know). In this case is discernible how the cultures in the United States are mixing, it is not a new problem, it have been there since the discovery of America and it is amazing how people is uncomfortable with the fact of immigration and sharing the experience of living in their own wonderful countries; we are all people, with the same feelings and emotions and happiness should not be determined by a

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