Considered less mexican?

[Oldies Rule Forever1]

Originally Posted by Latn_Bombshell

I'm chicana and very proud of my heritage. My family has an interesting story. My grandmother on my mother's side was born in Idaho. A few years after the Depression, government officials began to blame Mexicans for the country being in such bad economic shape. Because of this, my grandma and her family were deported (although they were natural born citizens) to Juarez. While there, she went to school and got her education and eventually met my grandpa, who also just so happen to have been deported. He was born in El Paso. They married and had their kids in Mexico and eventually migrated back to the US. To this day, my grandma refuses to speak a word of English because she has such bitterness for the American government. Of course, under US policy, my mother automatically became a citizen because her parents were citizens. Do I consider my mother more Mexican than my grandmother just because she was born in Mexico??...HELL NO!! what matters is where your heart is and who you identify the most with.

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