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V o i c e s 2 0 2 0 | 46Breaking BarriersJacky MoralesThis might be a compelling story all in itself. A little Mexican American girl learnsthe importance of education. She spent her time inside the two bedroom apartment onthe couch reading Rainbow Fish to The Immortal Rules while the other kids pulled outtheir Star Wars lightsabers. If she’d forget about education and continued living as apoor Mexican, she would’ve been considered a good future house wife. But she is livingin a two bedroom apartment with six other people and considered an outcast whocouldn’t be as successful and assertive as any male no matter how much she yearned forthe end of her poverty and the start of a good education. Asking questions and beingcurious made others think she was foolish, as if she should’ve known everything. Thisfilled her with doubt and insecurity for which now she alludes to herself in third-person.A smart Hispanic woman was considered a daydreamer, generally shamed,dismissed and reminded she belonged nowhere else but at home doing chores andcooking to find a future husband after completing high school. I participated in myclasses every day, breaking the Hispanic women stereotype. Hispanic girls feared tohave a voice. They, the girls who feared to have a voice, wanted me to remember myplace in our society when my teachers wanted to get to know each one of us or whenthey expected us to participate to show we can do it too. We were expected to be quiet,get pregnant, or dropout. Most Hispanic women lived up to fulfilling those standards.They did plan on dropping out because it was too difficult for them to keep up with butnever planned on not satisfying those typical Hispanic women stereotypes. They foundthemselves pregnant and fell into drugs but never put the same yearning for somethingpriceless, their education. They claimed to be independent even though they knew theirparents and society were setting them up to be dependent, fulfilling those stereotypes.As Hispanic girls, we were expected to be unintelligent and fail. Those who failed theireducation were welcomed to a low minimum wage job, a two bedroom apartment with6 people, and a family who believed you couldn’t be more. Was there a way out?I refused to be led to a path of stereotypes, specifically made for housewives. Iwas resilient. I was stubborn. I was smart enough to pass. I stayed up late at nightfinishing homework. I stayed after school to get help from teachers. I stayed after schoolto get involved in clubs like Temas Latinos, Robotics club, and tutoring. I spent days andnights studying for tests and finished homework after working 6 hour shifts at Subwayand cleaning offices with my mother after school every day except for Wednesday’s. Iasked my teachers “How can I improve on my grade for this class?”. I asked my teachers“How does this lesson relate to life or benefit mine?” I constantly threw questions to allmy teachers to get further into depth of the topics I learned in their classes. I took my
V o i c e s 2 0 2 0 | 47time to reflect on what might have happened if my mother went to college and myfather didn’t dropout in the third grade, thinking of all the food that could’ve filled myfridge and stomach while I starved. I dreamed of having an actual bed set, but we livedcheck by check. I let my curiosity run wild whether it was into the topics I learned atschool, life, or reading SlaughterHouse 5 as a freshman. I told my parents I was going tocollege whether they liked it or not. I was trying to break the Hispanic womenstereotype.Grandma's houseRyan LangeThe sweet smell of pie.The aroma wandered around the houselike a lost child.The squeaking of the floor as I walked on it.My cousins giggling and playing in the warmth of grandma's house.The smell of the cherry wine the adults drinkAnd the children ready to dine.
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