Reflection About Cultural Identity

If you are feeling a little confused that’s okay, this is judgment free zone. I am twenty three years old and on the verge of graduating this December, And my interpretation of messages changes every day that I mature and grow as a person. Everyone is different and entitled to their own unique interpretation of messages. For example, I am Mexican American I was born in Las, Cruces New Mexico but my family is from Mexico. And everyday I find new meanings in the messages I receive from parents.

This is just the small part of the family for there are even parts of the whole family that act in a similar fashion. During the course of the story Yunior and his family go to their Aunt and Uncle’s apartment for a little Open Full Document Within the works of “Fiesta, 1980” it takes us in the lives of a Latin American family. We are described a traditional style Latino family were there is a dominate father figure, a submissive mother, and obedient children more or less. There are two boys the eldest Rafa and the youngest Yunior and their younger sister Madai. During the transgression of the story it is conveyed through the eyes

Texas’s first African American woman novelist was also a biographer, diarist, educator, publisher, and librarian. Lillian B. Horace was born on April 29, 1880 in Jefferson, Texas. Her parents were Thomas Armstead and Mary Ackard. The family moved to Fort Worth, Texas when Lillian was a young toddler. She would go on to receive her early and formal education, graduating from the historically black institution, I. M. Terrell High School.

In the essay Rodriguez challenges the idea of bilingual education, he takes us through his personal experience of a bilingual childhood where he talks about what he encountered in America as he attempts to adjust to the American culture, and how he preserved his intimacy with his family even through the language barrier. Throughout the essay, we soon see that his identity and success is tied to the place and how he was raised, his parents are a major part of his success. Richard Rodriguez was Born in a Mexican immigrant family, him and he’s family moved to California, so he had to adapt to the new and unfamiliar situation, where the culture and language is completely different, therefore making him feel like he did not belong in the American culture. There was something Richard said that was really interesting, he said “An accident of geography sent me to a school where all my classmates were white.” He believed it was an accident that he moved to the area he lived in, but I think that his parents move there on purpose. His parents could have moved to an area where everyone only spoke Spanish, but instead they decided to move to a place where people only spoke in English.

Gary has become one of the most important contemporary authors throughout his life. Gary Anthony Soto was born on April 12, 1952 to Manuel and Angie Soto. His family is of Mexican descent, which means one of his ancestors down the line left Mexico and came to the United States. He was the second child, coming after his older brother Rick and before his younger sister Debra. Gary was raised in Fresno, California where both his parents and grandparents worked as laborers in the

Salvador Castro was born on October 25, 1933 in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles and was a social studies teacher who played a major role in the 1960s Chicano walkouts. He was the only son of two hardworking Mexican immigrant workers. As a child, his father who was undocumented was deported back to his home country. Castro’s parents eventually divorced due to them being far apart. Castro attended segregated a school and encountered racism.

Jackie Robinson was born in January 31,1919. During his childhood, he had experience the feeling of segregation against the Americans and the African-Americans. Jackie Robinson spent his entire school years from elementary to middle and high school then to University of California, Los Angeles in a black community. Where he met his future wife Ms. Rachel Robinson who was studying for a bachelors of Nursing. After graduating from UCLA and graduated from Officer Candidate School in the Army, Jackie and Rachel got married and had a son.

In addition, she makes points about her culture.” An American to Mexicans a Mexican to an American” (Mora 40). She is saying that she has Mexican heritage but was born in America. Next in Robert Lake’s A Indian Fathers plea, the father is upset because the teacher labeled his son a slow learner and he is only 5 years old. “ The reason this quote stood out to me was because

Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales was born to Federico and Indalesia Gonzales, two Mexican immigrants, on June 18, 1928. When he was two, his mother died, leaving his father to take care of him, his five brothers, and his three sisters. This led to a very close familial bond between him and his siblings, as well as with his

As a previously described, I grew up in Tijuana, Mexico for the first 18 years of my life and I have lived in Southern California for the past 8 years. During my time in Mexico, I saw and met many people who lacked the adequate access to health care and other essentials such as clean water, food, and electricity. Here in the United States, I have also met many people who lack access to health because of different health disparities, and my mother actually experienced this the first 2 years she lived in this country. These experiences have made me appreciate even more the opportunities, possibilities, and tools I have, as well as to reinforce my goal of assisting disadvantaged communities. I think that my goals, interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies, as well as experiences, will contribute to Loyola’s mission to educate medical professionals who will provide comprehensive patient care and will uphold social justice.

It’s like if we have pattern our first two daughters have two years in between each other and then there is a gap of 5 years between the second girl and the boy and then again two years in between the boy and the baby. We have now broken that pattern because our baby is 12 years old she is the youngest of them all. My oldest daughters Maria is 21 years old she is in college she says she is going to go far and I believe that because with support and dedication everything is possible. She is studying our culture Mexican studies sometimes she can’t decide whether to dress in our authentic Mexican clothes or in normal American clothes. Karla is 19 years old and she is planning on going to California’s plantations to see where I had been working and interview workers working there now.

It then was passed down through generations eventually becoming my grandmothers. I attended Martin Luther King Jr. School there in the Lower Ninth Ward. That part of city basically was on own little city inside of one, it multiple schools, grocery stores, doctor offices etc., basically all of human being necessities in order to survive and live comfortably. It wasn’t till the year of 2005 when everything drastically changed for me. Hurricane Katrina hit and caused my family to have to relocate to Houston, Texas where we spent almost 2 years being classified as a refugee.

Dennis Chavez was born in New Mexico on April 1888 in Los Chavez, Valencia County,.His parents were David and Paz(Sanchez).Dennis had seven brothers and sisters. He started going to public schools when he was.Only as an 8th grader he had to start working because of financial issues in the household. He started working as a grocery store clerk in his town. Then later, after that he started in the engineering department in the city of Albuquerque for a while.After that he married Imelda Espinosa in 1911.She was a member of a very important family. Then after they moved to the Belen county in 1914.Shortly after they moved to Belen he started working for as a newspaper guy,private contractor,and a court interpreter.In 1917 he was given a job

Ruby Bridges was born on September 8,1954 in Tylertown , Mississippi when Ruby was 4 years old her and parents Abon and Lucille Bridges, moved to New Orleans for a better lifestyles in a big city. Her father had a job as a gas station Attendant her mother had night jobs to support their growing family. Ruby soon had Two younger brothers and a younger sister. It just happened to be that Ruby was born the same year as Brown v. Board of Education. When she was is kindergarten she was one of the many African-American Who were in New Orleans that were chosen to take a test to determine whether she can Attend an all whites school.

Many things about Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou are the same but many things are different between them also like how they went through life with the jobs they got and things they did.This essay is to compare the two so you can learn many things about them.We’ll start with things about Mr. Hughes.Langston Hughes grew up with his mom but she was gone most of the time so he was raised by his grandmother until he was 12 years old.Some things about his family is the fact that his father left his mother at a early age and moved to Mexico although he left Langston still had a relationship with him although a very bad one, after high school his father wanted him to go to college for engineering instead of poetry so they compromised and Langston