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Being Mexican-American - College Essays

Being Mexican-American

It was in the end of my sophomore year. My woodshop teacher said one of the most controversial things I had ever heard. You could clearly see in his face that he was of Hispanic descent. He said to me, "mijo, I am not a Mexican I am full American." Being from a school predominantly Hispanic and being raised in a Hispanic community, that was unheard of. He saw my surprise and the disgust in my eyes and said, "look mijo, what has Mexico ever done for you? You're so proud of being a Mexican and dismiss the fact of being an American, your only lying to yourself. I look at your generation of young Latinos and think to myself how hypocritical you are. You claim a country that does absolutely ...

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was young, I went through that whole phase of Chicano pride and down with the system. I was in all that movement." The way he was describing himself was identical to most proud Mexican-Americans today.

He told me to look up a man named Roy Benavidez. Tears came to eyes as I read the story. This man a medic, volunteered to rescue countless men in no man's land in the jungles of Vietnam. By the time he reached his location this valiant man had been shot, stabbed, and beaten. If it wasn't for God and the morphine, this man might have not made it. As soon as he reached his location, this man hauled countless bodies American and Vietcong to safety. He didn't care if they were black, white, Hispanic, Arab, he didn't even care if they were Vietnamese! After carrying them all up into a helicopter this man who went to hell and back, in order to protect the liberties of our nation received a Congressional Medal of Honor for his valor and strength.

At that moment I realized through all ...

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Added: 11/24/2012 11:56:01 PM
Submitted By: misa
Category: Personal Writing
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