Mexican Drug War

shaped Nashville for the better. Now, Nashville offers a wide variety of foods such as American, Indian, middle eastern, Asian, and Mexican food. Cars have also entered into the Nashville culture with Music City. Music City offers many luxurious supercars such as the Mclaren and the Lamborghini. An example of the car culture shaping Nashville is the 615 Crew. A group of Mexican immigrants that fall in love with the concept of cars hosts many car meets around the Nashville Area. In cool springs,…

The Mexican Revolution brought about a cultural reawakening that heartened artists to look inward in search of a specific Mexican artistic portrayal beginning in 1910. This visual representation, designed to rise above the field of the arts, gave a national identity to this population experiencing a chaotic transition. Because a majority of Mexicans were faced with the harsh realities of warfare, people developed new ways for coping with their own adversity, however, with more than half of the…

being called Hispanic because this term is used to identify Spaniards and not Spanish Speaking counties to the South of the United States. I can relate to this because I personally consider myself a Mexican-American. My parents are from Mexico, and I was born here in the United States. I have both the Mexican and United States nationality, and I feel like it identifies me. It is worth reading because one can get some knowledge. Some people prefer to get called something that is not Hispanic.…

the fights found in my own country. Personally, based on my experiences, it's hard being Hispanic. Prejudice and assumptions have become part of me because society impulsed an image that is not necessarily who I am. I am Hispanic, more specifically Mexican. Nonetheless, I don't belong to a cartel. On the contrary, I am part of the University of Davis. Other times the discrimination is based on the fact that I am a female Hispanic in a science field. Some people may think that I am about to…

Different people have different views of Hispanics. Hispanics are brown and illegal immigrants. Hispanics are lazy and drug addicts. Hispanics are gang members and steal American jobs from American citizens. Hispanics are Mexican. But we're simply not that is not what being Hispanic means. Being Hispanic is not living up to these views. Being Hispanic is to be hardworking, to continue on our parents work, to make it worth for our parents to leave everything they know and are familiar with…

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…

the border patrol guards – whether official or self-proclaimed – believe that either the Mexicans are malicious creatures trying to invade the United States, or they are so desperate they would be willing to do anything in order to cross the border. The guards do not consider individual cases and they judge the Mexican people trying to come to the United States as a whole. They heavily generalize these Mexicans and the majority looks down on them; however, this movie did tell at least one story…

Maddie Galvan Prof. Aquino Ethics: Decolonizing Religion 12 December 2015 Latin American Methodologies of Anzaldúa and Althaus-Reid In her book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa details the various borders she found present in her life. Through personal experience, by means of prose and poetry, she highlights these invisible fronteras between men and women, Latinas/os and non Latinas/os, and homosexuals and heterosexuals. However, Anzaldúa most closely examines the…

deepening of gender oppression by racism, can be seen through the oppression of women of different types of races. Different races experience different types of gender oppression and furthers the fact that gender oppression is not just because of gender. Mexicans, African Americans, and Asians all experience types and forms of gender oppression, but these oppressions, at their core, all have the same origin. This origin is that of race playing such a huge part in their gender oppression. It is…

However, they battle with their racial identity, often discussing how they don’t feel “Mexican enough.” Their parents and extended families speak fluent Spanish and carry on most Mexican customs. They have created a new balance of their Mexican and American cultures, but Ari and Dante still feel as though they don’t always have a place in their culture. Ari and Dante’s parents have Americanized themselves much more…