Julissa Arce on why success isn’t worth her assimilation
How to Be a Better Human
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How Has Changing Your Perspective on Assimilation Changed Your Relationship With Your Family?
I constantly get into this little argument with my family in Mexico about how they need to stop being so racist. I think there's still a lot of people in Mexico that think that there's no racism in Mexico, like you can't be racist if you're in Mexican. So it's definitely changed a lot of things for me. But then there are some other friends that don't recognize it. They still think that this is a country of white people and for white people and that we should just be grateful that we're here.
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