Mexican prejudice damaging to Mexican pride
Lost Sisters
Where arc you my sisters,
In this strange world?
When I speak,
I hear only my words.
I am of the old,
Customs, traditions and beliefs
Let me know where you are
It would be a relief.
So many are different now,
Try to be other than Mexican,
I am not ashamed
Of who I am.
1 will fight,
For the true Mexicans,
F;or no one can change me,
Try if you can.
Do you see that you are lost?
, You embarrass us!
Say you are of else,
You can’t say you’re us.
I write this in English
Because that’s all you speak.
You don’t care for Spanish,
But with others that’s all they seek
You may look like me,
But I know I’m true.
With pride I can say Mexican 100
percent
I know you can’t because you are
you.
You can’t hide who you are,
But just pretend.
We won’t acknowledge you,
As sister or friend.
Rosemary Rivera is a freshman sociol
ogy major and a Diversions contributor.
What’s All This Identity Crisis?
Damn! How much il hurts,
to be a majado, an illegal, an
alien,
an undocumented, a Mexican
jumping
bean, a wetback.
Damn! How much it hurts,
to be a cholo, a stuit suitor,
a greaser, a spic, a pachuco,
a homey.
Damn! How much it hurls,
to be a coconut, a back-stabber,
a sellout, a whitewashed,
a token, a Hispanic.
Damn! How much it hurts,
to be a Mexican, an American,
a Mexican-American, a Chicano,
a Latino, a Chicano-Latino.
Damn! 1 low much it hurls,
to be all these for my Raza.
But never a HUMAN!
Eduardo Perez Is a graduate student in
sociology and a Diversions contributor.
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