animber
Apr 8, 2015
Undergraduate / Crime in Mexico - some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern [3]
"They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds", is a quote most protestors in Mexico use. This means so much to me every way possible. When times get rough and it seems that you can't find any other way than to compromise to what life has given you, instead of being the seed that grows in tough soil that fights against all odds. I was born in the United States but because I'm Mexican I have come across people who had though that I won't make it past high school without getting pregnant or dropping out, that I will work in the fields or in a small business, that I won't reach the "American Dream" because for them I'm just another illegal immigrant. The Ayotzinapa students had push me have pushed me to reach higher, to be that seed that grows in dried land, to thank the sacrifices that my parents made for me, the rage and drive to be the number of Mexicans that fights from the stereotype and reach the American Dream some believe we can't accomplish for being "illegal immigrants". Like the forty-five Ayotzinapa students there are many cases in Mexico of missing or killed students and for them I will would work hard and shape a new image for both of my countries that we are not giving up on our goals even if everything is taken away.
kidnappings, killings, rape and corruption in Mexico
"They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds", is a quote most protestors in Mexico use. This means so much to me every way possible. When times get rough and it seems that you can't find any other way than to compromise to what life has given you, instead of being the seed that grows in tough soil that fights against all odds. I was born in the United States but because I'm Mexican I have come across people who had though that I won't make it past high school without getting pregnant or dropping out, that I will work in the fields or in a small business, that I won't reach the "American Dream" because for them I'm just another illegal immigrant. The Ayotzinapa students had push me have pushed me to reach higher, to be that seed that grows in dried land, to thank the sacrifices that my parents made for me, the rage and drive to be the number of Mexicans that fights from the stereotype and reach the American Dream some believe we can't accomplish for being "illegal immigrants". Like the forty-five Ayotzinapa students there are many cases in Mexico of missing or killed students and for them I will would work hard and shape a new image for both of my countries that we are not giving up on our goals even if everything is taken away.
