Mexican American Family In The Mexican Family

Growing up in a Latino household is hard. My parents only spoke Spanish therefore my first language was Spanish. For the first few years of my life this was not really a problem, I enjoyed life as any normal little girl would. I got to talk to all of my cousins and all of the neighbor’s children. It wasn’t until I got to school that it became real that I was going to learn English. Don’t get me wrong I always knew I had to learn English my parents always talked to me about school and helped me as much as they could. It was also around this same time where I started to understand that it was not only hard for me it was hard for them as well. My parents had to live in this country not knowing the main language spoken.

Growing up in a Hispanic household has taught me many things. I have learned to see things as an optimistic person, and that it doesn’t matter where you come from as long as you work hard for what you want anything is possible. My family has always implemented the values of life that lead me to perceive what it was about to throw at me.

In the film “Mi Familia,” we follow the story of the Mexican-American Sánchez family who settled in East Los Angeles, California after immigrating to the United States. Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas introduce the story of this family in several contexts that are developed along generations. These generations hold significant historical periods that form the identity of each individual member of the family. We start off by exploring the immigrant experience as the family patriarch heads north to Los Angeles, later we see how national events like the great depression directly impact Maria as she gets deported, although she was a US citizen. The events that follow further oppress this family and begins separate identity formations. These

In our society today, culture is not what it used to be hundreds of years ago. There is no more “pure” culture. Our culture today is enriched with many different traditions and customs that are being shared and adopted. Due to emigration and immigration, a variety of diverse customs, beliefs, and knowledge moved with every exiting and entering human being. Thus, changing and shaping the culture of many. Throughout the world, the beliefs and religious views of culture are dissimilar around the world. By taking the time to read, listen and learn about certain people’s culture, there will be knowledge and understanding that will be gained.

Many times, a person’s culture depicts their upbringing as a human being. The influences of family values, beliefs, traditions, expectations, etc., heavily influence how parents raise their children. In Hispanic culture, children are raised with strict rules as many parents value obedience, respect, authority and family. These values represent the interdependent yet strong minded individuals many parents hope to create.

This is a narrative of one Mexican American woman’s experiences and her views on the importance of passing down the cultural beliefs of her ancestors. In the section of the country in which I live there is a large population within the community of Mexican American culture. Although I have frequent contact with people of Mexican American heritage either through employment or interaction out in the community, I have a limited understanding of their culture. For this reason, I chose to learn more about the population of people I have frequent contact with and as a professional work with as clients in the field of mental health counseling. The quest of finding someone knowledgeable to discuss the population, their cultural background and some of their necessities, as well as some past experiences, led me towards contacting a church. This took calling two different churches before the person at the second church informed me that I needed to speak with, Mrs. Socorro Garcia head of their Hispanic Ministries. Unfortunately, Mrs. Garcia was on vacation when I called, but I was able to speak with her over the phone the following week, setting up an interview in person at her office a couple days later. This was a relief because I was becoming concerned about locating someone for a personal interview.

As a student, I am interested in helping others and I know I am not alone. Hispanic population in the United States surpasses 50 million in the United State and not everyone has it easy some are undocumented and unable to work. Many have family in Latin America who ache to come to America and work. In addition, not everyone wishes to come to America illegally but the legal process take a long time and there are no other options for people living in poverty. Therefore, I know I am not alone when it comes to helping people. Audience From humanitarians to Hispanic community member as well as scholar would be interested in bringing a change to the society. In Fact, politician and governors like Greg Abbott would be interested in this issue because it seeks to help the border security and probably strengthen the trade with Mexico. Furthermore, UTA student and their friend and family, alongside scholar, journalist, and writers will be interested in this issue because it affects a large population of us.

Due to the millions of illegal Mexican immigrants living in the United States, the U.S. should help develop Mexico’s economy, to be able to better to support their people, thus less of them will migrate to the U.S. According to the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington, “There are 10.3 million illegal immigrants in the United States today—57% from Mexico. This massive influx of Mexicans has overpopulated American cities, put a serious drain on our social services, and have created a growing tension not only with US citizens, but also the other Mexican immigrants that have persisted through the system and reside in the United States legally.” Illegal immigration is a serious problem in the United States, and the only way to be able to protect both

Mexico is a great example to use when discussing why working towards citizenship would be a great thing for both Americans and illegal immigrants. Starting off with a heated topic, that people try to flee Mexico to get a better life here and a job to support their family. Most people believe that it is for wrong reasons such as drug dealing, or gang related activities. This situation can surely be helped if illegal immigrants could work off their citizenship. When immigrants want to enter America they would apply for any job that is available and companies would pick them up if their application is good. If the illegal immigrant can prove that he/she wants to improve their family's lifestyle than it was in their original country (Mexico for this occasion) than they would get a green card allowing them to work on the fact that they are trying to support their families. This project is more in favor for pregnant women, or single mother/fathers, due to them being by themselves and with children. This would help the gang stereotype because most gang members, or drug dealers won't be able to provide a way they're going to help their family.

It’s not unknown that the United States and Mexico are trying to find a solution to deal with the illegal immigration crisis not just in the borders they share but beyond that and the communities that these illegals go to. Illegal immigrants have been using social services and have been creating tensions with U.S. citizens and even Mexicans who have gone through the legal process of gaining legal resident status. But it is fact that illegal immigrants have positively impacted American business, cheap labor and cultural diversity to communities (Branton & Dunway, 2009) Alternatives have been thought of, from deporting all illegal immigrants, create an open border policy between Mexico and the U.S. or even providing assistance to the Mexican

In all entirety, the United States’ actions against the Native and Mexican People were extremely damaging to those communities, and the U.S. crossed both legal and moral lines to commit them. Therefore, leaving anyone to see that they were unjustified. Additionally, it is important to understand from this lesson that superiority is not a reason to subject people to awful heartbreak, in this case caused by being stripped away from one’s home. People have to be aware that thinking such as the Americans during this time still exists. It exists in the minds of C.E.Os tearing down poverty stricken towns to build their mini-malls or executive headquarters, and it’s seen in people who disregard others based on their race or ethnicity. John O’Sullivan

Why do you think the experience of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants has been so different? Remember to think about this within the context of their historical experience as well as considering the nature of American society at the time of their arrival. Also consider Taking Sides 4.2 Remember that Latinos are NOT a racial group.

If there were to be one major Latino group which is the least assimilated, I would make the plea for the Mexican minority group. I believe that this is the case, mainly, because of two reasons. The first is the degree of potentiality to garner wealth and power, as is conducive to leisure, when the Mexican immigrants settle in the United States. Many of the Mexican minority come in search of the “American Dream,” the chance to rise the ranks of the social hierarchy, similar to most other immigrants. However, the result is far less indicative of created aristocracy. The reason being is that many have their work concentrated in sectors where low paying jobs are a commonality. Such a truism prevents the Mexican group’s diminishes their drive towards

When I was 11, my family didn't really have a lot of money, so my father decides to go to New Mexico to provide for us. It was hard at first because that time was when I really needed and wanted my father at home; it was also hard for our family. The first couple of days I would think he was going on a vacation but realizes that he was coming back at night, I would cry. It was even harder when he would call and ask to talk to all of us. Just to hear that he missed us, ripped my heart into shreds. He would say that he would try to work hard to get a lot of money to come back faster. I just imagined him working so hard being tired and sleepy but still wants to give everything he has to come home and provide for our family.

This article written by a news agency that works for Spanish speaking countries is speaking about the oil situation in Mexico, it highlights some of the influence a certain transnational cotporation currently have. Currently Mexican Oil is controlled by Petroleos Mexicanos which is a transnational corporation, in the article you see that the author (unknown) writes that it controls an industry which is one of the pillars of the development of Mexico. The current issue at hand is that the growth of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is that is holds more than 13 billion USD in losses from the industry. The company holds a lot of power over Mexico’s economy and it could affect it negatively. It is a great example of how a transnational corporation could