Mexican people

an authentic Mexican restaurant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The first thing I noticed about the restaurant was the décor. There were sombreros, maracas, and murals of homes and people in Mexico on the walls on the restaurant. There was also traditional Mexican music being played in the restaurant. Our waiter us gave our greeting in Spanish and then translated it into English. He said “Hola, como estas?” I also noticed that most of the workers seemed to be of Spanish or Mexican descent. I read…

Honors ELA 10 October 11, 2017 I Am Me Yo soy Jaslyn, and I am Latina. I’m a Mexican girl who was born in the United States of America, which makes me Mexican American. Being Chicana always made me feel like an outcast. When I tried to make friends with full Americans, I could never relate to them because I wasn't exactly like them. Mexicans always viewed me as a brat who doesn’t know anything about being Mexican. I’ve always hated when Caucasians put me in the category of “chola” or…

Luis Valdez, it is evident that the purpose of the play is to illustrate how Americans treat Mexicans in the United States in order to show the audience how Mexicans feel about their treatment from Americans. The Mexican-American playwright, Luis Valdez, brilliantly utilized satirical and absurdist elements in this play in order to emphasize the ideas that Mexicans are treated as objects and that few Mexicans, such as Miss Jimenez from the play, try to conform with American society in order to…

endorsed, yet unequal. The U.S is one of the most diverse countries in the world. There are people of all different races and cultures. Although, there are so many diverse groups of people, Whites still remain to be the most privileged. The privileges that White people have benefit them in every aspect of life. Many readings help support the evidence of this issue such as, “The Other Struggle For Equal School: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era” by Ruben Donato, “Education For…

58.6 million is the number of Hispanics currently in the U.S. (Krogstad, 2017) Although it is a commonly known ethnic group, a vast majority of people probably don’t know the history of the word itself. They might know the definition, but not how it came to be, or what it meant in another time. In this paper I will inform the reader how and when the word Hispanic has changed throughout time. I will do this by first familiarizing the reader to the history of the word, second informing the reader…

Mexican American, Immigrant, White , Latino, Hispanic, everyone has different Ethic of who they are some people think to their self who are they? Who am I, people see me by my color or the way I look people think I'm white but I'm really actually Mexican . Many people think just the color you are they think you're white or a different race . Who am I today is I am Mexican American girl that look white but I'm Mexican that talks English and I'm American because I live in America and I understand…

Mexican origin people have interlocked with the beginnings of the United States since the Anglo-saxon’s era of Westward Expansion. This little known fact has affected and continues to affect the identities of these people. Within the Great Depression, the identity of Mexican origin people was categorized as part of the Mexican race and then later, with continuing changes in politics in the World War II time period, their identification as part of the Mexican race shifted to that of the white…

living on the Texas-Mexican border. When she was in elementary school, speaking Spanish on accident led to her getting smacked with a ruler by her teacher. She was then sent to sit in the corner for “talking back” when all she was trying to do was tell her American teacher how to accurately pronounce her name (Anzaldua). Oppressive incidents like these became a recurring part of her childhood and, unfortunately, the same can be said for many others like her. The oppression that Mexicans in…

counter. Cesar said “the love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it also the most true to our nature”. Like I said this man had the mentality of someone you read in “LA OPINION”. In my dark eyes Cesar was “the Mexican”, white people feared him left and right and prayed that Cesar would look the other way or they would lose their fortune. To me that is an accomplishment beyond a lot of people’s reach. As a young child Cesar did not like school that much, I mean I…

their manners, values, and morals. Family is also where socialization is mostly affected for an individual. According to Coltrane, family is defined as “a group of two or more people who reside together and who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption” (Coltrane). On the contrary, family is defined in many ways, some people define family as long past ancestors, distant family members, siblings or other blood relatives, and friends who are so close that they become honorary family members…