Comments on: Excerpt http://hijasamericanas.wordpress.com Looking at body image, beauty perception, and growing up Latina Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:39:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Jessica http://hijasamericanas.wordpress.com/excerpt/#comment-55 Jessica Thu, 24 May 2007 19:33:32 +0000 http://hijasamericanas.wordpress.com/excerpt/#comment-55 "In college, a friend once denied my ethnicity as we talked about my upbringing." Thats what my brother and sister do, tell me that I am a gringa, but they are no more Latino than I am, we had the same ubringing just that most of my life I've been secluded from other Hispanics, sure I was born in San Fran where I got to live withdiversity, but when I was five we moved to the midwest. It's hard to keep your culture when your not surrounded by it, and never really got to know it. “In college, a friend once denied my ethnicity as we talked about my upbringing.”

Thats what my brother and sister do, tell me that I am a gringa, but they are no more Latino than I am, we had the same ubringing just
that most of my life I’ve been secluded from other Hispanics, sure I was born in San Fran where I got to live withdiversity, but when I was five we moved to the midwest. It’s hard to keep your culture when your not surrounded by it, and never really got to know it.

]]> By: Raquel Michel http://hijasamericanas.wordpress.com/excerpt/#comment-40 Raquel Michel Thu, 17 May 2007 03:39:41 +0000 http://hijasamericanas.wordpress.com/excerpt/#comment-40 Hey Rosie! I can definitly identify with what you wrote. My mom tells me that because my name was Raquel, they would automatically put you in ESL classes. Of course my mom fought on and said, "No I want my daughter to learn English". The whole going out thing, I can definitly relate 100%. My mom would not let me go to friends homes until they meet them and their parents. I know I had no social life...but i understood that it was her way of protecting us and of course culture. I was watching the Real Housewives of O.C., i know ridiculous, but I noticed that they dont care who their son invite over to their home or what they do in their room. I was shocked. The school situation, my college counselor did not want to help me go to college, but someone else did. It is hard being Latina, a minority because we will always get the end of the stick. Great Job Rosie!!! I am excited to reading it! Hey Rosie!
I can definitly identify with what you wrote. My mom tells me that because my name was Raquel, they would automatically put you in ESL classes. Of course my mom fought on and said, “No I want my daughter to learn English”. The whole going out thing, I can definitly relate 100%. My mom would not let me go to friends homes until they meet them and their parents. I know I had no social life…but i understood that it was her way of protecting us and of course culture. I was watching the Real Housewives of O.C., i know ridiculous, but I noticed that they dont care who their son invite over to their home or what they do in their room. I was shocked. The school situation, my college counselor did not want to help me go to college, but someone else did. It is hard being Latina, a minority because we will always get the end of the stick. Great Job Rosie!!! I am excited to reading it!

]]> By: rosiemolinary http://hijasamericanas.wordpress.com/excerpt/#comment-19 rosiemolinary Fri, 11 May 2007 04:19:40 +0000 http://hijasamericanas.wordpress.com/excerpt/#comment-19 Thanks so much for your kind words. The women in Hijas Americanas are all so refreshingly candid and insightful, and offer so much inspiration and hope. And there is a whole passage about sleepovers later in the book! I know you'll get both a kick out of it and yet another feeling of relief that it didn't just happen to me and you! And as for being a guide to the writing world, I am still a rookie compared to most, but I am happy to share what I know or what I have experienced if you have any specific questions. Con un abrazo fuerte, Rosie Thanks so much for your kind words. The women in Hijas Americanas are all so refreshingly candid and insightful, and offer so much inspiration and hope. And there is a whole passage about sleepovers later in the book! I know you’ll get both a kick out of it and yet another feeling of relief that it didn’t just happen to me and you! And as for being a guide to the writing world, I am still a rookie compared to most, but I am happy to share what I know or what I have experienced if you have any specific questions.

Con un abrazo fuerte, Rosie

]]> By: Brenda de Luna http://hijasamericanas.wordpress.com/excerpt/#comment-2 Brenda de Luna Thu, 10 May 2007 04:06:25 +0000 http://hijasamericanas.wordpress.com/excerpt/#comment-2 "I remember standing there in silence, wondering how I’d become an Anglo without any birthright" WOW! Still in the habit of writing all over everything I read, I wish I could highlight this screen! Es muy alentador ver que una gran mujer y escritora como tu ha pasado por las mismas cosas que mis amigas y yo hoy en dia. Tu coraje gives us strength. Tus palabras son como the light at the end of the tunnel; you know, like if you can do it I CAN TOO! And I can completely relate to the little things you mention that aren't so little in a girl's life: sleepovers and being able to talk on the phone and such. I never got to go to a slumber party. . ."tu tienes tu casa y no tienes porque andarte quedando con otra gente"... I can't wait for your book to come out! Consider yourself my honorary guide in this world of writing ☺ “I remember standing there in silence, wondering how I’d become an Anglo without any birthright”

WOW! Still in the habit of writing all over everything I read, I wish I could highlight this screen! Es muy alentador ver que una gran mujer y escritora como tu ha pasado por las mismas cosas que mis amigas y yo hoy en dia. Tu coraje gives us strength. Tus palabras son como the light at the end of the tunnel; you know, like if you can do it I CAN TOO! And I can completely relate to the little things you mention that aren’t so little in a girl’s life: sleepovers and being able to talk on the phone and such. I never got to go to a slumber party. . .”tu tienes tu casa y no tienes porque andarte quedando con otra gente”…

I can’t wait for your book to come out!

Consider yourself my honorary guide in this world of writing ☺

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