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Stuck Between Two Cultures
As a daughter of Peruvian immigrants, and as a natural-born American citizen, I often feel torn between two cultures. Growing up in Miami, I was exposed to all kinds of Latin American cultures and food.
As a daughter of Peruvian immigrants, and as a natural-born American citizen, I often feel torn between two cultures. Growing up in Miami, I was exposed to all kinds of Latin American cultures and food.
It was through tears that I finished typing up the statement of one our asylum clients. This wasn't the first asylum case I've worked on, but it was the first one after Trump's administration and his recent executive bill to build the wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.
Five months ago, I began my fitness journey. Since then, it has become a daily routine for me, one that I cannot imagine my life without. Not only does my body and mind feel stronger, day by day, but I noticed something was missing: I wasn't eating as healthy as I wanted to be eating.
Oh, the weight room - an intimidating place filled with sweaty bros walking around like they own the place and trying to tell you you're doing something wrong. Four months ago I would have never set a toe in the weight room, but, to my own amazement, I now walk in by myself with my head held high.
Engineering has always been a topic of constant conversation in my family, especially at the dinner table. You would think with having been exposed to math and engineering my whole life, I would be good at it. Nope.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court announced it deadlocked in a case challenging President Barack Obama 's immigration executive action with a 4-4 vote. PLUS: Indiana Teenager Stuck in Mexican Border Town, Barely Speaks Spanish In 2015, Texas and 26 other states challenged Obama's action, which would have protected as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and allowed them to lawfully work in the country, calling it "unconstitutional."
The year was 1990 when a young newlywed couple migrated to Miami, Florida with all their savings and an engineering diploma from the best engineering university in Peru. At the time, Peru was undergoing terrorism and financial turmoil that kept worsening by the day, and the young couple knew they had to leave the country to start their future family.
If there's something we learned during this election, it's that the Latino vote is an important one to win over if you want the keys to the White House. Candidates are so eager to win the hearts of Latinos that they are turning to "Hispandering," expressing fake interest in Latinos - as well as their issues and their culture - in an effort to gain their vote.
With the presidential election right around the corner, it seems like all the strongly opinionated "politicians" on your Facebook friends' list who've been in hiding for four years are finally coming back into the limelight.
By: Natalie Cardenas With the presidential election right around the corner, all eyes are on the demographic block that could have a huge impact on who gets the ticket to the White House. That is, if there's a huge turnout of them at the polls. I'm talking about the Latino population.