Mexican Culture Essay

The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the short-lived Mexican-American War and awarded the United States more than half of Mexico’s territory. As the border moved south to the Rio Grande, between 75,000 and 100,000 Mexican citizens suddenly found themselves living in American territory. They were unfamiliar with their new country’s laws, language, and customs, and although the Treaty had awarded these new Mexican-Americans the full protections and rights of United States citizenship, it…

directed by Chris Eyre, did a good job of showing what life was like on the reservation. In this movie the Indians did not talk funny, and they were not savages. It gave insight into the culture of Native Americans in a positive way. The director showed audiences that story telling is a big part of their culture and that not all Native Americans even like the story telling. A group that has been persecuted like these ones is the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community. The LGBT…

Europeans came down and took it all, and he isn’t wrong. For that he wants his respect that has been overdue here due to the mistreatment of his environment Enrique living in America. To Enrique experiencing being American, it is much easier than being Mexican and developing in Mexico. His belief is very strong in this reason and this is due to him previously living in Mexico and experiencing how hard it was to make a living and how scarce opportunity is and not to mention the education systems…

foreigners. People believe coming to America is the key to a better life. With the overflow of our new neighbors we transform from a single society into a mixture of several cultures. Immigration is causing America to become a tossed salad (a society in which ethnic and racial groups maintain separate identities, with no dominant culture) and we as citizens should acknowledge our culturally diverse society. Living in border states such as Texas, Arizona or California may give the illusion or…

is one thing that consistently describes Mexican food, it is spicy. Aside from the “spiciness” seen throughout Mexican culture, such as the “reporters” seen on some Mexican news telecasts, Mexican food can be described as hot, or spicy, and chiles are a big reason for this. While chiles are indigenous to the Americas, nowhere else is its use more sophisticated than in Mexico. Most places use chiles simply for the heat factor it provides, but chiles in Mexican food is used also for the flavor and…

In chapter 7 titled The Mexican American Family it talks about how there is an education gap, and how education might not be as important to the Mexican American family as it might be to other ethnic groups. I found this very interesting, because everything that I read in the chapter contradicted with that I learned in my interview. Our…

as both hippies and Mexican American’s rejected societal norms through their unique attire, rebellious attitudes, and vehement resistance or support to war. As they walked to their own beat, hippies in the 60’s did everything other than the norm, by creating their own perspectives and lifestyles and rejecting the American values that had long been in place. In turn, The Sleepy Lagoon trial in the 40’s, which preceded the Zoot Suit Riots, fueled racial tensions between Mexicans and white…

that the Mexican-American race has the highest number of people that populate the United States, and this demographic continues to grow even more. A Mexican-American is an American of full or partial Mexican decent. My parents, both born in Mexico, migrated to the United States in search of a better future for themselves and children. Because of my Hispanic roots, and my birth in the U.S., I am considered a Mexican-American. As a result of my equivalent exposure to two different cultures, I grew…

want desperately to give their children the chances they never had” said by Marco Rubio. This quotation shows that most hispanic parents want the best for their children. They wanted them to have the life they didn’t get a chance to have. Loads of Mexican/ hispanic parent’s move to the United States for a better life. On top of that so that their children have a better life than what they experience. In continuation this makes the children born in the United States but their parents are…

especially if I am Mexican-American. The term Latinos is described as, “Persons whose national origins, or whose ancestors’ national origins, are in the countries of Latin America-that is, Mexico and much of the Caribbean, Central and South America” (Feagin, 209). Despite I was born here in the United States, I grew up most of my life back in Mexico…