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Journal Entry of a Subordinate Group Member
Kalena Martinez
Eth 125
April 11, 2010
Dr. Tekesia Sturgis
Dear Journal,
It's been fifteen years since our family left Mexico and crossed the border to the United States of America. In Zacatecas, Mexico, my family had nothing. They came to America to make a new life for our family. My father arrived in the U.S. when he was in his twenties. Originally, they moved to Corona, CA. They moved around a bit until my father moved to West Covina, CA. He has been working hard and living there ever since he came to this country, to provide us, his family and future children, with a better life.
It's been a struggle here. My dad tells me all the time how hard his life has been. He explains how hard it was to live in Mexico with nothing, and how hard it was to move here and start out with nothing. It's been a struggle for him. He tried to fit in and make a living like everyone else. However, it seemed that the only friends he ever made were hard-working Mexican immigrants like him. It was difficult fitting in, and having an accent. Mexicans look different, speak a different language, and even speak English differently because it is not their native tongue. It is not just appearance that causes others to discriminate. Some people still make rude comments about Mexicans stealing jobs and not being welcome here in the U.S. Everyone is here to make a better life for their families and themselves. This is the land of opportunities, the land of the free. My father has been working long, hard, sixteen-hour days for the last forty years, just to give us the chance to become more.
When he met my mother she was only eighteen and he was twenty-five. My mother is also Mexican. Soon enough my older brother, Rudy was born. My father had a family of his own to provide for, besides helping out his mother and father, my grandparents. Just two years after Rudy, came my sister Stephanie, then I was born two years after her.
I am the...