Personal Narrative: I Am Mexican-American
Who am I?: I am Mexican-American
Who are you? What do you identify yourself as? Are you happy with how people portray you as? Everyone thinks about who they are, what they identify themselves as. Recently I have been giving some thought as to who I am, I think of myself as an average Hispanic MexicanAmerican girl who is labeled and criticized based on the color of my skin. Some of the terms that
I would consider myself as is Hispanic, Mexican-American, Chicana, and People of Color. "56.6 million the Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2015, making people of
Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or racial minority. Hispanics constituted 17.6 percent of the nation’s total population." (US Census Bureau) Imagine how many more Hispanics are in the U.S in …show more content…
They always say "You're not Mexican or Hispanic", "You don't look Mexican, you look white." Even though I don't look Mexican or people don't think I am
Mexican, I don't care, all that matters is what I know to be true and who I am to myself.
Some things that I hate is all the stereotypes that are made against Hispanics. Like the way Donald Trump makes all Mexicans and Hispanics to be "drug dealers" or "rapist" or
"criminals". One thing that I remember is when I failed a class my junior year and this girl told me that I might as well drop out since my kind of people never finish school.Not all Mexicans or as she said "people of my kind drop out of school. We are not all quitters. We don not all drop out of school. I hate how people just assume things based on your culture instead of getting to know you and seeing how different you are and not all people from the same culture as you define yourself are all the same. "Over the past decade, the Hispanic high school dropout rate has declined and college enrollment has increased, even as Hispanics trail other groups in earning a bachelor’s degree." (Krogstad) Right now I am in night school making up the
Who are you? What do you identify yourself as? Are you happy with how people portray you as? Everyone thinks about who they are, what they identify themselves as. Recently I have been giving some thought as to who I am, I think of myself as an average Hispanic MexicanAmerican girl who is labeled and criticized based on the color of my skin. Some of the terms that
I would consider myself as is Hispanic, Mexican-American, Chicana, and People of Color. "56.6 million the Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2015, making people of
Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or racial minority. Hispanics constituted 17.6 percent of the nation’s total population." (US Census Bureau) Imagine how many more Hispanics are in the U.S in …show more content…
They always say "You're not Mexican or Hispanic", "You don't look Mexican, you look white." Even though I don't look Mexican or people don't think I am
Mexican, I don't care, all that matters is what I know to be true and who I am to myself.
Some things that I hate is all the stereotypes that are made against Hispanics. Like the way Donald Trump makes all Mexicans and Hispanics to be "drug dealers" or "rapist" or
"criminals". One thing that I remember is when I failed a class my junior year and this girl told me that I might as well drop out since my kind of people never finish school.Not all Mexicans or as she said "people of my kind drop out of school. We are not all quitters. We don not all drop out of school. I hate how people just assume things based on your culture instead of getting to know you and seeing how different you are and not all people from the same culture as you define yourself are all the same. "Over the past decade, the Hispanic high school dropout rate has declined and college enrollment has increased, even as Hispanics trail other groups in earning a bachelor’s degree." (Krogstad) Right now I am in night school making up the