{"id":2193,"date":"2011-06-11T22:46:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T03:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2011-06-11T22:46:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T03:46:45","slug":"my-mexican-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/my-mexican-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mexican Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mexican<\/a>Vanessa published a post<\/a> yesterday on Busted Halo<\/a> about her Mexican culture and some\u00a0difficulties\u00a0she is having in exposing the girls to it. This has been a well-discussed issue in our home, so Vanessa wrote nothing groundbreaking to me. One of the comments, though, I found quite interesting. “James” writes:<\/p>\n

Overall, I find this article offensively chauvinistic.<\/p>\n

I assume (but am not sure) from your married name that your husband is not Mexican. If he is not, then why is it important for the kids to be Mexican? You didn\u2019t merely talk about imparting some of Mexican culture to your kids, but of having \u201clittle Mexican kids\u201d.<\/p>\n

What you are worried about is not familiarizing your child with HER roots, because her roots are where she is and come from both parents. You are worried about imparting to her YOUR roots, seemingly exclusive of those of your husband.<\/p>\n

Why not let your child develop her own identity from her environment and from whatever she gets from both sides of the family? Why is it imperative that she be a \u201clittle Mexican kid\u201d?<\/p>\n

My mother was raised by immigrant parents, and we learned about their culture, but there was never any attempt to make us identify with her ethnicity or my father\u2019s. We just learned things as they came up, and they didn\u2019t try to form us into any nationality but that of our birth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However his mother raised him worked for him, so great. James put too much weight on V’s line of “little Mexican kids”. Why is it important to us that we expose the kids\u00a0to a great amount of V’s culture? Because there is unique culture there.<\/p>\n

Continue reading on The Journeyman<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vanessa published a post yesterday on Busted Halo about her Mexican culture and some\u00a0difficulties\u00a0she is having in exposing the girls to it. This has been a well-discussed issue in our home, so Vanessa wrote nothing groundbreaking to me. One of the comments, though, I found quite interesting. “James” writes: Overall, I find this article offensively… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":163455,"url":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/march-for-religious-freedom-november-22\/","url_meta":{"origin":2193,"position":0},"title":"March for Religious Freedom November 22 Part I","author":"Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez","date":"October 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201c[T]he most fundamental human freedom [is] that of practicing one\u2019s faith openly, which for human beings is their reason for living.\u201d Saint John Paul II On Sunday, November 22nd, the Solemnity of Christ the King, the Knights of Columbus from the Austin area and around the state of Texas will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Column"","block_context":{"text":"Column","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/category\/acnm\/column\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Texas State Capitol","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.austincnm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/capitol-150x99.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13996,"url":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/benedict-xvi-visits-our-mexican-neighbors\/","url_meta":{"origin":2193,"position":1},"title":"Benedict XVI Visits Our Mexican Neighbors","author":"Crist\u00f3bal Almanza Herrera","date":"March 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Seeing our German Pope wear a Mexican charro style sombrero was definitely one of my favorite images of our Holy Father\u2019s \u00a0Apostolic visit to Mexico and Cuba the last few days. 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