Mexican–American War

As for the Vietnamese, they practice traditional roles as well and in the Vietnamese society, family is the center of an individual’s life and activities (Phan). One of the well-known scholars of Vietnamese culture notes that a Vietnamese individual cares about their family more than his or her self. According to Phan, “The word family in Vietnamese means a social entity that consists of all an individual 's relatives, not just father, mother, and sibling.” Researchers and authors have argued…

accept the change to work in the mall. Working in the dump is what everyone does so why change and work in the mall. The mexicans in the movie The Tijuana Project became frightened with a rumor of the “Dump” moving locations. And in the book By the Lake of Sleeping Children when the gringos came to help the Mexicans, they didn’t want it because it felt like change to them. Mexicans despise change from occurring in their lives. Citizens of Tijuana wake up everyday, to a backyard full of trash,…

and two sons. He speaks very little English. He says that his family practices both American and Mexican cultures, but leans more to Mexican tradition. He stated that his family and roots of where he and wife come from are important. Since he was a little boy it was important to provide for the family especially because he was poor. His father made him quit school so he could work in the fields farming. Mexican stress the importance and value of work, but “many fail to complete a high…

The article discussed the recognition that Indigenous Mexican immigrants are a growing population in the US, but are continuously made invisible. The authors claim that it is important to recognize that although there may be a small difference between these indigenous immigrants and other immigrants in adaptation, their diasporic qualities in culture and language make them stand out as their own group and should not be overlooked. Many of the authors’s sub-claims connect the cultural behavior,…

Boyle is a modern novel that depicts the lives of two couples--one a wealthy American couple and the other a poor, illegal, Mexican immigrant couple. The novel is, in many respects, a commentary on the stereotypes, biases and walls Americans have built to separate themselves from immigration. Boyle uses these real and imagined boundaries to expose the social, physical and economic divisions between Americans and Mexicans in the United States. The most obvious boundary in the novel is the wall…

During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the African American communities were trying to make peaceful demonstrations and bring awareness about the injustices they were enduring in their daily lives. The civil right marches were a way to come together as a community, to protest peacefully, to change the laws about equality, discrimination, and segregation. During the demonstrations, there were times violence would break out, then rioting would ensue which caused many injuries and…

Houston. This is in no way bashing the city in any way but particularly just throwing my two cents to grow up as a gay Mexican American and discovering the gay community. The smell of liquor and stench of sweaty people around you isn’t the combination that is flattering. I didn’t grow up with the same freedom most of this people did and is was quite clear. I grew up in a Mexican family with the belief of my mom weighing down on us like an iron fist. It wasn’t that she was evil but she tried to…

about her country. In the same side of the portrait she shown the moon in the cloud too which is illustrate depression. Also she shown the flowers, wild plants, and some corn are on the floor which the natural, colorful, and beautiful spirit of the Mexican country. On the on the right side Frida represent the United States with other interpretation. For instance the sky is covered by smoke from the from the factories…

I was erasing a part of who I was, trying to change something about me that was me. How could I stop being of mexican descent, the same way a white person stops being white. They can’t. I can’t. Rather than suppress my race, I show feel pride from it, for though my people may not fit society’s mold for an intellectual person, they are intelligent in their own right…

essential way is the color of my skin, my ethnicity, and my heritage. Women with privilege who want a temporary bronzed summer glow covet my skin, yet for me, it is the first thing that everyone sees and what people use to stereotype me. As a Mexican-American woman in Southeast Texas, I often face different types of prejudice, stereotypes, and racism. As a young girl, it was rather difficult to feel comfortable with who I was, even though my ethnicity was something I could not control. The…