The Mexican Family During The Mexican Revolution

What if your family’s life was in your hands and a decision had to be made, and quickly? What if war was consuming the things that were revolving you? Well that was the case for the majority of the Mexican families living during the Mexican revolution. Many Mexicans fled Mexico moving to America looking for a prosperity, wealth, a better life to live because revolution had taken charge in Mexico, destroying people houses, changing family’s lives. During the Mexican revolution, the majority of the Mexican families were either landless because they were kicked out of the little land holdings they had because the government wanted to use that amount of land for agricultural purposes. Families during that time were also going through poverty

There was a place time where Americans came from all around to El Paso and Americans were bidding their best prices in order to get Mexicans to come and work for them. Then, when the Great Depression came to America, the Mexicans were blamed, they were America’s scapegoat during the Great Depression. Americans believe if the Mexicans left then everyone else would have a job. They began to take the jobs away from Mexican workers and replaced to by U.S. citizens. Some people were saying the Spanish, the Mexican, and the indigenous people did not have the special inheritance of liberty that Americans

This video help assure me that Mexicans are not lazy. Since the start from the first Mexican families coming to America they have been working because they want to make a better future for their families, they want to make a living. Mexicans can grow like any other person, for instance, Pio Pico he started as the other Mexicans form the bottom working hard; however Pio made it out he had the most elegant hotel in town “Pico Hotel”, he is a great example on how Mexicans can make it. Mexicans have shape part of America because of their culture Los Angeles is the place it is today because of the Mexican culture. The Mexican helped build Los Angeles, it started from a small rural town to an industrial metropolis, without the Mexican organization, structures or facilities Los Angeles would not exist or be how it is