On a daily basis, food is a huge part of our life, (where) wondering what to eat (constantly) fills our thoughts. In modern culture, we have the ability to choose from a plethora of options, whether we feel more like (it is) Chinese or Italian food. In the western world, we are blessed with these options from (due to) the mass immigrations in past generations and the hybrid cuisines of new people coming in today. Although immigration has allowed us to be introduced to foreign cuisine, the foreign food we eat has adapted to the culture that it has found and (which leads to the) authenticity being questioned. For example, the Latino food in America varies depending on where you are; in California, it could be Chicano or Cuban in Southern Florida.
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In Mexican culture, we see how the children have a precedent set to look after their family as they get older which makes the possibility and precedence of higher education more of a privilege than a natural next step in a child’s path to adulthood. Whereas, Americans expect their children to leave and pursue their own life, education and take their own steps to reach adulthood. For Mexican Americans, there is a clear distinction between public and private life, perpetuated by their intimacy of language by using Spanish at home and English in the streets. Spanish culture promotes the idea of home and a perpetual home within the family unit. The institutionalised power of the American culture affects immigrants as they come into a foreign nation, especially one with as heavy institutionalised power (repetition in the same sentence, use different phrase) as the US. The constant stream of modern culture and social influences creates a divide in their children as they decide whether they want their parent 's lives or the ones they see in the media: the white lifestyle. As new members of a nation, Romero points out that “the emphasis on binary racial identification poses an additional obstacle to the development of Latino identity and consciousness” (Romero, 15). They come in as the black sheep in a herd
In Mexican culture, we see how the children have a precedent set to look after their family as they get older which makes the possibility and precedence of higher education more of a privilege than a natural next step in a child’s path to adulthood. Whereas, Americans expect their children to leave and pursue their own life, education and take their own steps to reach adulthood. For Mexican Americans, there is a clear distinction between public and private life, perpetuated by their intimacy of language by using Spanish at home and English in the streets. Spanish culture promotes the idea of home and a perpetual home within the family unit. The institutionalised power of the American culture affects immigrants as they come into a foreign nation, especially one with as heavy institutionalised power (repetition in the same sentence, use different phrase) as the US. The constant stream of modern culture and social influences creates a divide in their children as they decide whether they want their parent 's lives or the ones they see in the media: the white lifestyle. As new members of a nation, Romero points out that “the emphasis on binary racial identification poses an additional obstacle to the development of Latino identity and consciousness” (Romero, 15). They come in as the black sheep in a herd