Review on the movie Mi Famalia
Although every family undergoes specific trials and tribulations, the Sanchez family, from the movie, "Mi Familia," went through personal experiences that set them apart from any other family. These experiences are what made them the close-knit family unit that we saw in the movie. Families that have immigrated from other countries to the United States, in this case Mexico, face a great deal of pressure to hold on to their ethnic background. This is a very difficult country to live in as a normal citizen, let alone an immigrant who can speak English in limited amounts. The problem, but at the same time, the wonderful thing about the United States is that it is a 'melting pot' of different cultures. So the question at hand is: How does one maintain their ethnicity through every other culture? The Sanchez family was a prime example of a how a family, as a whole, foreign to this country, was able to carry on their Mexican heritage throughout the good times and bad. Being eighteen years old and living in the Unites States all of my life, I cannot attest from personal experience on what it feels lik
From careful viewing of this movie, I think that the interesting thing about it is that it could have been about any family, from any country, coming into the United States. Every family has a story and this was the Sanchez's story. Mr. Sanchez had his long journey on foot from Mexico to Los Angeles. Mrs. Sanchez went through the struggle of being taken away from her family and then returning. The story keeps on elaborating on each of the children's specific story. e to be "different" in this country. I am not foreign to this country and I never will be. That is the truth and I cannot change that. I have always been looked at as the 'norm' of society, just a regular, plain, White male. But, what if the situation were reversed? What if I was an immigrant coming to the United States in search of opportunity and the "green" that Americans care so much about? What if I had to provide shelter and food for my family? What would I do if I were being discriminated against just because of the color of my skin? Would I conform to the ways of that society or would I keep to the old instilled valu
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Approximate Word count = 746
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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