Stereotypes Of Mexican-Americans
Mexican-Americans
Culture has been defined as so many things but what does it really mean? Dictionary.com defines it as “the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.” I guess you can say that’s a pretty fair definition but that’s not all, culture also has to do with the way people dress and what people listen to (music wise). Culture also deals with religion, politics, education, jobs, economic status and things like that. Well where does that leave them? Where do Mexican-Americas get places in all of this?
As a Mexican American I feel it is my duty to know all of the stereotypes that are said about us. Politically speaking, people think that …show more content…
For the Mexican-Americans that are born in America but have Mexico born parents are brought to the states to live the “American Dream” that their parent has for them. Most Mexican-Americans who are teens and or are in their early twenty’s seem to have it hard. They are under the pressure from their parents and sometimes themselves, they want to receive an education because that’s what their parents want from them but most of the parents also want their student to work full time to help pay family bills to make things easier on them. While in a classroom setting, some Mexican-Americans get ridiculed from teachers and sometimes even student. Teachers will speak slower to us because they assume we do not understand what they are saying. Other students can make jokes trying to make us feel bad because of who we are. Now a days we have laws that protect us from ridicule and bullying, that has help in some situations but not all the …show more content…
As I said it still does not stop people from doing whatever they feel like doing or feel like saying. Being Mexican-American, people think that we are incompetent and unable to work. We get judged harshly if anybody sees a Mexican-America at work mess up or do something small wrong. Mexican-Americans also get the hardest punishment because we are expected to do so much better in a job. We are held to a higher expectation because we are who we are, and it also makes it harder to keep a job because if we are held to a higher expectation and we don’t meet that expectation we get punished, fired
Culture has been defined as so many things but what does it really mean? Dictionary.com defines it as “the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.” I guess you can say that’s a pretty fair definition but that’s not all, culture also has to do with the way people dress and what people listen to (music wise). Culture also deals with religion, politics, education, jobs, economic status and things like that. Well where does that leave them? Where do Mexican-Americas get places in all of this?
As a Mexican American I feel it is my duty to know all of the stereotypes that are said about us. Politically speaking, people think that …show more content…
For the Mexican-Americans that are born in America but have Mexico born parents are brought to the states to live the “American Dream” that their parent has for them. Most Mexican-Americans who are teens and or are in their early twenty’s seem to have it hard. They are under the pressure from their parents and sometimes themselves, they want to receive an education because that’s what their parents want from them but most of the parents also want their student to work full time to help pay family bills to make things easier on them. While in a classroom setting, some Mexican-Americans get ridiculed from teachers and sometimes even student. Teachers will speak slower to us because they assume we do not understand what they are saying. Other students can make jokes trying to make us feel bad because of who we are. Now a days we have laws that protect us from ridicule and bullying, that has help in some situations but not all the …show more content…
As I said it still does not stop people from doing whatever they feel like doing or feel like saying. Being Mexican-American, people think that we are incompetent and unable to work. We get judged harshly if anybody sees a Mexican-America at work mess up or do something small wrong. Mexican-Americans also get the hardest punishment because we are expected to do so much better in a job. We are held to a higher expectation because we are who we are, and it also makes it harder to keep a job because if we are held to a higher expectation and we don’t meet that expectation we get punished, fired