Mexican people

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…

The movies “Mi Familia” and “ A Better Life” both use a image of the border as an obstacle. The border between the United States is not only used and an actual dividing line in the movies but a division between the families. The division between the families is felt between the members who were born in the United States and the members born in Mexico. In the movie “Mi Familia” the son, Jimmy, and his siblings do not remember the struggles that their family had crossing the border. The…

White Girls I’ve always had a thing for white girls. I have nothing against any girls with different ethnicities because I will date any girl, as long as they are my type and my type of girl has long hair, pretty eyes, and the body really doesn’t matter but I don’t want a girl that is unable to walk on their own. There are three types of white girls that I like, which are the ones who wear tights and UGG boots, country girls that wear the cowgirl boots and my favorite are the girls that wear…

other “colored” ethnic group. Much like African Americans, Latino Americans had to go through segregation and racism that would lead to injuries and deaths; even though some of America’s greatest war heroes were in fact Latino American. Fortunately, people such as John J. Valadez are trying to unveil the true meaning behind what it means to be a Latino American. John J. Valadez is an award winning filmmaker and director for a television series known as “Latino Americans”. He has been making…

Discrimination towards Hispanics is so big that there are at least 130 American towns and cities that prohibits the hiring of unauthorized day laborers, making it illegal to even rent houses for them to live in and they criminalized the public use of languages other than English knowing that English is their second language, if they even speak English (National Park Service, 1). To show how much America wants to cease the immigrant flow to the United States, immigration enforcement takes up half…

Álvarez-Bermúdez, and James W. Pennebaker set out to understand if Mexicans are actually more extraverted than Americans. There are prevalent stereotypes about Mexicans in that they are extraverted and outgoing, however, in self-reports, Mexicans rate themselves as less extraverted than Americans. The authors of the study set out to test three research questions overall. The first research question is, to what extent do Mexicans and Americans differ in how sociable they consider themselves to…

Divergent paths of Mexicans and Cubans in the United States The United States has been the center of pluralism for many centuries with the inclusion of immigrants from all over the world such as Latin America. Mexican and Cuban immigrants are two distinct prominent groups in Latin America with similar American dreams. Mexicans have been migrating to the United States illegally and legally throughout different eras due to the fluctuating policies towards them. Mexican migrants have faced…

As I turned the pages of Reyna Grande’s memoir The Distance between Us, my mind was transformed and my views on immigration and life have changed drastically. The privileged are often unknowingly selfish and can be ignorant to other people’s woes. I, myself have been guilty of this in the past, but I’m making an effort to do better. Reyna Grande paints a vivid picture of the poverty she endured while living in Mexico. I felt the pain, disappointment, happiness, hope, and animosity that many of…

In the passage from Days of Obligation by Richard Rodriguez, Rodriguez showcases his conflicting opinions about both California and Mexico, as he looks back on his life in reverse. Through the dialog and details, Rodriguez gives off an indecisive, yet passionate tone, which allows the reader to question the two conflicting opinions. The first section, containing the first and second paragraph, introduces the idea of the conflicting opinions. Rodriguez juxtaposes the words comedy and tragedy,…

As more cracks began to show in Vargas’ foundation, the country was adversely affected. Where Vargas had the option to silence his critics with threat of incarceration under the New State, this new era made him much more susceptible to his opposition. It certainly was not a secret that Vargas was growing frustrated with those who spoke out against him and when one of his adversaries, Carlos Lacerda, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, many believed Vargas to be the primary suspect.…