Tiempo De Val Meaning

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Tiempo de Vals: De Niña a Mujer Ahora Para Siempre. “Tiempo de vals es tiempo hacia atrás, donde ser lo de siempre es volver a empezar. Cuando el mundo se para y te observa girar, Es tiempo para amar. Tiempo de vals, Tiempo de sentir. De decir sin hablar y sin escuchar, sin oír. El silencio que rompe el aire, un violi¬n. Es tiempo de vivir” “Tiempo de Vals is a song I hold deep to my heart. I remember this song, because this was the theme song of my vals. This song was so popular when it first came out, and continued to be among young women getting ready to celebrate their quinceañera for many years. At this time when this song released, was also around the same time when my mother was pregnant with me. She loved it so much she decided to make …show more content…

“… The quinceañera affirms a cultural tradition from the root culture even as it may also be a site for increasing assimilation…” (Cantu, 2002). Although things have changed too, we see these new traditions and there are many similarities. One of these similarities that the new and old customs are, are having a big and lovely quinceañera dress. Cantu talks about how the dress is important because it is the young woman’s first formal adult attire. This has always been true since the very beginning. Belem’s dress was white for her quinceañera because at the time, had believed that the color of a dress had to be white if they were going to present themselves to God to proclaim and accept the Catholic faith. White is a sign of purity and signaled virginity to church and was believed that, that was very important. Now in the present, the dresses are all sorts of colors that a quinceañera uses to go to the church. The new traditions have drifted away from the traditional white dress and now use a variety of different colors. In my family, they now say that the long, beautiful, white dresses are only now being used for the sacrament of marriage, not quinceañeras and so this tradition of the white dress has now …show more content…

My medallion was given to me by my pardrinos. They were my padrinos from my baptismal, confirmation and communion and they were really good padrinos, I hope to one day find my children good padrinos that can be good role models ”, Belem expresses as she talks to me about the Jewelry she was given to her quinceañera. While talking about her jewelry she also brought up the topic about her godparents and the roles that they had taken part of in her quinceañera. Her padrinos had given her a medallion that had the image of La Virgen de Guadalupe as a symbolism of her religious expression of faith. She is a popular pick among the Mexican-American culture as she is viewed as a motherly figure and is a role model to many women who practice the catholic faith. She was also given a ring with a cross that represents her faith and it was initially bought for her to show and proclaim her faith to the outside world. Since Belem’s quinceañera, we have seen a change in trend of quinceañer jewelry. A lot of the quinceañera jewelry doesn’t have any religious image anymore and has drifted from that. Instead a lof the jewelry has sayings like “Mis XV (Name)” or “(Name) Recuerdo de Mis XV”. One of the reason for, is that a lot of the quinceañeras that are going on are not practiced by the catholic faith for this reason, a lot of jewelers are making more of a neutral designs for all

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