Mexican Revolution

6 ZOOM Mexican food vs Tex-MexHistoryIn 1521 Spain invaded Mexico. Spanish foods had the most influence on the Mexican cuisine. They introduced new livestock, such as sheep, pigs and cows. They brought with them dairy products, and garlic as well as many different herbs, wheat and spices. It was at this time that the Mexican people saw the assimilation of many other cuisines including Caribbean, South American, French, West African and Portuguese. Because of this Mexican foods today…

Page 1 of 2 ZOOM Tex-Mex Vs. Real Mexican You know those nights when you crave for mexican, so you go to Taco Bell, well you aren’t getting real mexican food. Tex-Mex food is a combination of Mexican and American cooking. Tex-mex originated with Tejanos, citizens of Texas who are descended from Mexico. These people applied Mexican style cooking to the region. Mexican food is believed to obtain from the Mayan Indians. A lot of Tex-mex food and restaurants can be found in…

The Latino population has been one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the past decades, with an estimate of approximately 60 million Latinos living in the United States. Additionally, the number of Latinos enrolled in schools or colleges have also widened. However, despite the outstanding increase of Latinos enrolled in schools and college, there is one important issue most people ignore, Latinos face an educational crisis that is caused by a number of reasons including economic, social,…

The Annexation of Texas and The Mexican American War The U.S. - Mexican War began on April 25, 1846 and ended when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848. It followed the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico deemed part of its domain, even after the 1836 Texas Revolution. However, conflict between Mexican guerrillas and U.S. troops continued for several months after the war ended. The last of the American troops left Mexico on August 2, 1848. In 1845, the…

Racial Worldview What is the definition of “racial worldview”? According to Audrey Smedley “racial worldview” is a way of perceiving the world’s people as being divided into exclusive and discrete groups called “races” that are ranked hierarchically. In other words, Smedley believes that people of the same skin color are categorize into a group and a forcefully given a position on the social scale based on their pigment of their skin. So what is race? A simple definition of race would be a…

The definition of language is a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition but for me language has another meaning. For me language is the key to obtain my success. I have taken me four years to learn English and it has been worth it. Being capable to read and write in English has opened many doors into professional and personal opportunities. In Fields of Reading there are…

countless number of varying cultures that we will observe throughout our lives. As someone who was born into a small rural town that lacks diversity, I set out to learn the differences between my culture, and the cultures of the Asian-American and Mexican-American families of today. My culture can be defined as being identified as a middle-class, blue-collar, White American. I was born into a small community whom lacked citizens…

lifestyle to their job. To start with, many believe that Mexican are mostly immigrant and they mostly worker or low paying jobs. Furthermore, there are people that criticize them for the increase in population of America from either giving birth or crossing the border illegally. People also think that they are lazy as well. Not only that people think that Latino is directly mean Mexicans. These are just a few negative stereotypes that Mexicans have to face in America. Even though, they make up…

was the one of the first expression of Mexican resistance to Anglo domination. Individuals who were seen as Mexican outlaws were defined by “Eric Hobsbawn’s model of the social bandit: “ideally a young, unmarried peasant who commits an act which the state regards as criminal, but which most of his peers regard as justifiable or heroic” (Glenn 174). However, it was the Anglo injustices that forced these individuals into outlawry. Laws were imposed onto Mexicans because of the racial difference…

south to continue living on Mexican territory as Mexican citizens (Bedolla 17). This was a unique case compared to other Latino populations coming to the United States. Since their home country moved with them in a sense, Mexican-Americans had the ability to communicate with their home country at almost as much as they did before the treaty. This was a value to them obviously since the culture was not dramatically changed. The population did not have to recreate Mexican life in the United States…