Mexican Revolution

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…

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…

unwelcoming with the new changes. She is Mexican; therefore, her heritage can be seen by the flag. Her roots from the produced are getting entwined with the technology. The skyscrapers and factories represent United States. The fallen Mayan or Aztec temple could show the rebuilding or destruction that the United States have caused. The Mexicans focused their lives on produce which can be seen at her feet. The idols show the Mexican religion. She…

issues that Mexican immigrants are presumed to be an “ethnically homogenous population” (Fox and Salgado pg1). The authors’s that the Mexican immigrant population is not only becoming more “geographically diverse, but also “increasingly multi-ethnic” (Fox and Salgado pg1). Many of the authors’s sub-claims connect economical, political, and social reason to why indigenous Mexicans are becoming their own ethnic group. For example, one of their sub-claims dispute that indigenous Mexicans have a…

Costa Rica is situated in Central America with neighboring countries Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south. It has a population of roughly 4.5 million with a quarter living in the capital and its largest city, San José. Costa Rica represents the problems that Third World countries are facing despite being considered one of the safest countries in Central America. The shift to being a more safe and tolerant nation has Costa Rica still dealing with certain dilemmas like crime and…

and sat down. One of them offered away their salsa that they got on the side because they said they don’t like spicy stuff on her food. I was honestly shocked because I “thought” that Mexican people like to make they’re food spicy because of all of what I have seen in the store. Usually the spicy sauces are Mexican style. But because I thought that they liked the spiciness from the salsa on their food was me reading a book by its cover. All in all, Chimamanda’s talk was one of the most…