This is so true... Lol! (Being Mexican American is tough. Anglos jump all over you if you don’t speak English perfectly. Mexicans jump all over you if you don’t speak Spanish perfectly. We got to be twice as perfect as anybody else. Our families have been here for centuries. And yet… they treat us as if we just swam across the Rio Grande! We got to know about John Wayne and Pedro Infante. We got to know about Frank Sinatra and Agustin Lara. We got to know about Oprah and Cristina. Anglo food is, to bland, and yet when we go to Mexico we get the runs! Now that, to me is embarrassing! Japanese Americans, Italian Americans, German Americans… Their homeland is on the other side of the ocean. Ours is right next door, right over there. And we got to prove to the Mexicans how Mexican we are and we got to prove to the Americans how American we are. We got to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans… both at the same time! Its exhausting!! Damn… nobody knows how tough it is to be Mexican American. Well, it’s a good thing we have frijoles and tortillas to keep our strength up for the job! *Selena film, Edward James Olmos as Abraham Quintanilla)
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:47:12 +0000
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