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Speaker 1: Amada La, and you're listening to Exactly Amada. Thank you
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Speaker 1: story to tell. I cannot do today's episode without my friend,
Speaker 1: my producer, me Bana Men fineo Alex.
Speaker 3: Alex in the house, Bob and I am in the house,
Speaker 3: not necessarily your house, but I am in the house.
Speaker 2: In your house. That's right.
Speaker 1: You know that as much as I am a big,
Speaker 1: bubbly person with this huge personality, a lot of people
Speaker 1: just see, you know, the end results, but don't actually
Speaker 1: or obviously didn't get the opportunity of seeing the struggle,
Speaker 1: of seeing the journey. Social media just came about, like
Speaker 1: maybe what seven eight years ago that it really became
Speaker 1: a thing, and I didn't have an opportunity to showcase
Speaker 1: like my journey. Well, my space don't count because back
Speaker 1: in my space it was all about you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, It wasn't the same. It was like your
Speaker 1: top five friends, top ten pers Everybody was just trying
Speaker 1: to you know, customize their backgrounds.
Speaker 2: And just be cool.
Speaker 1: Like it was such a cool vibe, positive energy. Nobody
Speaker 1: was trying to compete with each other. It was less
Speaker 1: people being fake and it was a good era. But
Speaker 1: in that time, I wasn't really concerned in showing people
Speaker 1: my journey and my struggles of me still trying to
Speaker 1: pursue my career as an artists, how hard my mother
Speaker 1: had to work to support my dreams as an immigrant
Speaker 1: in this country. Like there was just so much backstory
Speaker 1: that now that I'm in a better place. I kind
Speaker 1: of want to take you guys back, and I just
Speaker 1: want to talk about how it feels what it was
Speaker 1: to be raised by immigrant parents. Well in my case,
Speaker 1: immigrant mother, if you can relate, by the way, don't
Speaker 1: forget to go to exactly amount it on Instagram or
Speaker 1: on the YouTube channel and in the comments, tell me
Speaker 1: your story. Tell me you know, how was it for
Speaker 1: you being raised in the United States coming from immigrant parents,
Speaker 1: as far as the cultural difference, language barriers, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So in your case, were you born, Alex in the
Speaker 1: United States or you came here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, just to start off, this is still a
Speaker 3: very hot topic, immigration and immigration reform, and just the
Speaker 3: whole aspect of you know, immigrants coming from other countries
Speaker 3: trying to find solace and happiness here in the United
Speaker 3: States is still a very hot topic. This is something
Speaker 3: has never gone away. I was born and raised in
Speaker 3: Puerto Rico. Now I know it's a common wealth of
Speaker 3: the United States, but I still came from another country,
Speaker 3: another country, but island away outside of the United States.
Speaker 2: Alex.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this because I've always had, like
Speaker 1: in real life, I've always had this debate in my
Speaker 1: mind of not understanding. So to me, when you talk
Speaker 1: about Puerto Rico, guys, please forgive my ignorance. I'm just
Speaker 1: this is really like a learning you know, a learning
Speaker 1: experience for all of us. But when we talk about
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, I feel like it's like talking about like Dominicans.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's like, wait, no, but
Speaker 1: if you really stop and look at it, you guys
Speaker 1: are Americans somewhat right.
Speaker 3: I think it's just due to the fact that we've
Speaker 3: we've seen Puerto Rico as as that it's a part
Speaker 3: of the United States. It's a commonwealth. If you look
Speaker 3: at film, even at film a matter. From back in
Speaker 3: the day, Puerto Ricans were looked so differently. They were outcasts,
Speaker 3: they were they were for some reason to other people.
Speaker 3: We were still known as immigrants and and talked down to.
Speaker 3: So I came to this country not knowing a word
Speaker 3: of English, so you know, I felt it. I felt
Speaker 3: just like anyone else who came from from a Central
Speaker 3: American country or a South American country into the United States.
Speaker 1: Do you feel that Puerto Ricans still feel kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, isolated to a certain extent. Do you feel
Speaker 1: that they still feel like they're treated lay as immigrants
Speaker 1: or not necessarily.
Speaker 3: I think it's changed. I would say the old guard.
Speaker 3: You know, if you still have your grandparents and your
Speaker 3: parents that are still from there that feel a certain
Speaker 3: way about you know, the way the island is viewed
Speaker 3: and the people are viewed. Yes, but I think as
Speaker 3: as generations have kind of moved forward, it's changed a
Speaker 3: little bit because now you see a lot of quote
Speaker 3: unquote colonization of Americans moving to the island and becoming
Speaker 3: citizens of Puerto Rico. There's there's a lot, there's a
Speaker 3: lot to unpackt but you yourself, your mom, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, my mom came through the Mexican border. Like
Speaker 1: my mom went through the whole experience of hiding in
Speaker 1: the desert and seeing women get raped and you know,
Speaker 1: people being left behind and the coyotes, and you know,
Speaker 1: she saw that whole process.
Speaker 2: She told me it was very traumatizing.
Speaker 1: But that only was really put you in a mindset
Speaker 1: because I know there's a lot of people that are
Speaker 1: like against.
Speaker 2: Immigrants coming to this country and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: First of all, first of all, I will say this
Speaker 1: much that only lets you know how desperate you have
Speaker 1: to be wherever you're located, that you are willing to
Speaker 1: sacrifice your life. In many occasions, there is parents that
Speaker 1: travel with children, there's women who are pregnant who go
Speaker 1: through these missions, whether it is through water or through
Speaker 1: land or whatever, just for a better future. I don't
Speaker 1: like to generalize, but most of the people that are
Speaker 1: leaving their country, nobody wants to leave their home, Nobody
Speaker 1: wants to leave their household, nobody wants to leave their family.
Speaker 1: But if there's no future in your country, if there
Speaker 1: is no future, there's no food, there's no jobs. You know,
Speaker 1: there's no electricity, you're struggling. You can only but imagine
Speaker 1: and then you know, in your mind or on TV
Speaker 1: or whatever, you see this other country where there's luxury
Speaker 1: cars and people are famous, and there's glam and there's
Speaker 1: job opportunities, and there's immigrants where they're like, I came
Speaker 1: out of nothing and now I own this. It just
Speaker 1: makes them feel it. There's so much more possibilities. So
Speaker 1: my mom left, which I'm grateful because if it wasn't
Speaker 1: because of the sacrifice she decided to do with her life,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be here today. And if it wasn't because
Speaker 1: I'm here today, she wouldn't be having the lifestyle that
Speaker 1: she has now. Like many other immigrant parents, you know,
Speaker 1: they struggle and they sacrifice for their children and for
Speaker 1: their families, and we have to be grateful for that.
Speaker 2: I think that sometimes, because we've.
Speaker 1: Been able to have it oh but so good, we
Speaker 1: kind of forget what our parents went through for us
Speaker 1: to have a better lifestyle, you know, for us to
Speaker 1: have good education, health care and all these other things.
Speaker 1: So it was hard for her, and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: proud of her. I am proud because my mom, after
Speaker 1: all those struggles, she was able to have three restaurants
Speaker 1: in Miami.
Speaker 2: She worked very hard. Still don't know no English, but
Speaker 2: as an immigrant, not knowing.
Speaker 1: The language, you know, language barriers, education barriers, and all
Speaker 1: those things, she still made something out of herself. And
Speaker 1: I always admire those stories of people that come out
Speaker 1: of nothing and create a better future for themselves. As
Speaker 1: an immigrant, I'll say this much, not only or coming
Speaker 1: from an immigrant household. I always say even myself, as
Speaker 1: an Apple Latina, I have the best of both worlds.
Speaker 1: In a country that there's a lot of people against immigrants,
Speaker 1: that they don't want immigrants and it's like and then
Speaker 1: on top of not wanting immigrants.
Speaker 2: Then y'all don't want black people either.
Speaker 1: And then here's me where I am Latina. And then
Speaker 1: on top of that, when you see me, you don't
Speaker 1: know that I'm Latina until I open my mouth. So
Speaker 1: I am just part of So it's difficult. It's difficult,
Speaker 1: it really is. And I think that that's why I've
Speaker 1: been so vocal about being an activist for the Apple
Speaker 1: Latino community. And I think it's important to support the
Speaker 1: immigrants you know, that are coming here to make a
Speaker 1: better future for themselves and for us too, because immigrants
Speaker 1: do a lot of the work that the people that
Speaker 1: are born here don't want to do. And I know
Speaker 1: that nobody wants to talk about it, and we all
Speaker 1: see it, and that's a big elephant in the room.
Speaker 1: This country was built by immigrants, okay, and all these
Speaker 1: people that are we're Americans, and we're so well educated.
Speaker 2: Well, because you're.
Speaker 1: So well educated, silent by Apple, go over there by
Speaker 1: the farmer markets and be over there, you know, working
Speaker 1: hard and be humbled about it, like most of the
Speaker 1: immigrants that come to this country.
Speaker 3: And there's parents still doing that today. Like like I
Speaker 3: see it. I see parents still struggling, still coming because
Speaker 3: you know, they come here for safety, a new life
Speaker 3: and opportunity, you know. And then there's there's a different
Speaker 3: spin on it with whomever is talking about it, whether
Speaker 3: it's in the media or politicians or whatever the case
Speaker 3: may be. There's always a different Like people, until you're
Speaker 3: in their shoes, people don't know what's going on. And
Speaker 3: un till today, I mean twenty twenty three, people are
Speaker 3: still struggling the same way your mom did, trying to
Speaker 3: come over, trying to create a life. I seen kids
Speaker 3: still going to work with their parents on the weekend,
Speaker 3: Like they don't have babysitters, they don't have people to
Speaker 3: take care of them.
Speaker 1: I live in Miami, where we obviously know the Cubans.
Speaker 1: A lot of them come, you know, on boats. Can
Speaker 1: you only but imagine what it is to be, you know,
Speaker 1: in the ocean, in the middle of the ocean, with
Speaker 1: that salt water, full of sharks, full of everything, all
Speaker 1: types of things, and to know, like, for example, I
Speaker 1: have a friend and he was like, thirty six of
Speaker 1: us left Cuba and only sixteen minutes.
Speaker 3: You're crazy.
Speaker 1: So you can only but imagine some people throw themselves
Speaker 1: off off desperation, the the salt on your skin and
Speaker 1: the sun in your face, and a lot of them
Speaker 1: sometimes even get lost. And then you you you think
Speaker 1: we'll get there in this amount of time and end
Speaker 1: up being lost for like a whole week in.
Speaker 2: The middle of the ocean.
Speaker 1: We lo we talk about it, but this is like
Speaker 1: a real life experience that people are going through in
Speaker 1: order to try to have a better future.
Speaker 2: Nobody does that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come here and I'm just gonna be like
Speaker 1: a killer or a Robbert, and I'm just gonna go crazy.
Speaker 1: Most people that are doing this are really just here
Speaker 1: trying to get a job. I want to work, I
Speaker 1: want to have food. There's no food in my house.
Speaker 1: There's no medicine, there's no nothing. So I see those
Speaker 1: stories and I'm like, going to that's crazy. I also
Speaker 1: found on you know, another story that we saw here
Speaker 1: on TV in Miami where there was this lady that
Speaker 1: was seven months pregnant.
Speaker 2: Leaving Cuba in a little bowl in the middle of.
Speaker 1: The ocean, trying to survive. So I think we can
Speaker 1: be very judgmental, but a a another in another a
Speaker 1: positive note to a certain extent. Something that I am
Speaker 1: grateful for is that my mother worked so hard and
Speaker 1: made sure that I always knew where I was, you know,
Speaker 1: where I came from, even though that I was born
Speaker 1: in the United States. My mom never let me lose
Speaker 1: the essence of my culture. We would listen to Juan
Speaker 1: Luiguerra Sisa Caldeleon on the weekends in the house, but
Speaker 1: she was cleaning, you know, I would have my mango
Speaker 1: with salamo, like my Dominican traditional food, and like she
Speaker 1: always made sure you are Latina. You are Dominican, Yes
Speaker 1: you were born here, Yes you speak English. Yes I
Speaker 1: get those parts, that part, but here's where your family
Speaker 1: comes from.
Speaker 2: This is your culture.
Speaker 1: Because sometimes, and I've heard two sides of the story.
Speaker 1: A lot of parents want their kids to have a
Speaker 1: better future and they want to become they want them
Speaker 1: to become as Americanized as possible. And there's another side
Speaker 1: where they're like, it's important for you not to lose
Speaker 1: your essence of where you come from. And that also
Speaker 1: comes with even the language.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I know of a lot of Latinos that don't speak
Speaker 1: any Spanish because their parents are like, it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: just talk to me in English, I understand what you're saying,
Speaker 1: and I'll just answer back and forth. And that's one
Speaker 1: of the things that I'm working on myself. My daughters
Speaker 1: don't speak any English, and in my house, well, we
Speaker 1: only speak Spanish.
Speaker 2: We only listen to Spanish. Because I know that the
Speaker 2: world will teach you English, and I don't.
Speaker 1: Want them to lose that because I'm second generation what American? Well,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm first generation American. They are second generation American.
Speaker 1: I don't want them to lose it, because sometimes you
Speaker 1: lose that.
Speaker 3: Do you get what I'm saying. Yeah, Well, the importance
Speaker 3: of the of language and cultural you know, existence within
Speaker 3: the family is huge. I know, for instance, I grew
Speaker 3: up talking Spanish at home and that was it, you know.
Speaker 3: And I learned English by going to my you know
Speaker 3: esl classes, you know, and my friends taught me you
Speaker 3: know certain things, and I was surrounded, Yeah, I was
Speaker 3: surrounded by a lot of people that were just like me.
Speaker 3: And I believe that if you if you're going to
Speaker 3: teach them both languages, you're setting them up for success anyway.
Speaker 3: You know, what about your kids, you teach them Spanish
Speaker 3: sort of kind of It was very hard because we
Speaker 3: were you know, my ex wife and I two different households,
Speaker 3: were divorced, so it was kind of hard. But they
Speaker 3: kind of understand that they were they're upset now that
Speaker 3: they're older, and they didn't you know, get the full
Speaker 3: you know, extent of it and experience of it.
Speaker 1: So it's never too late. It's never never too late.
Speaker 1: And you know, whether it is through music, your food,
Speaker 1: you know, watching novelas was one of those things that
Speaker 1: really helped.
Speaker 3: That's a cultural thing for us, see coming.
Speaker 1: Together back in the day saw he and everybody will
Speaker 1: come together watch you know, Salo.
Speaker 2: And it was a moment and you know, I want
Speaker 2: to not lose that.
Speaker 1: I would hate to see my daughters like mom, this
Speaker 1: and that, and I'm like, oh I am get.
Speaker 3: Over the Let's talk about the educational system a little
Speaker 3: bit here while you were growing up. How now that
Speaker 3: you're talking about speaking Spanish, you know, how hard was
Speaker 3: that for you when you were in school? Here? Uh,
Speaker 3: the differences and obviously as a as a child of
Speaker 3: an immigrant, right and the people that you you went
Speaker 3: to school with, how was that firsthand for you?
Speaker 1: For as far as in language, sometimes I would mix
Speaker 1: my words, you know, because I'm like, I know what
Speaker 1: and even your brain has to process sometimes, like I
Speaker 1: know what this means in English way, or I know
Speaker 1: what this means in Spanish and you have to like
Speaker 1: find the words inside your brain dictionary. So I had
Speaker 1: some struggles with that sometimes, or I would have the
Speaker 1: kids laugh at me because my accent was pretty heavy.
Speaker 2: I still have an accent.
Speaker 1: Now, but I imagine even younger, so my accent was
Speaker 1: very Sophia got it like really heavy, and it was
Speaker 1: a thing. I'm not embarrassed by it now. It's just
Speaker 1: it's just part of who I am. If they ever
Speaker 1: hear it. Get The educational part was I don't think
Speaker 1: it was that hard because in Miami it's it's very
Speaker 1: diverse and there's there's a melting pot of cultures. So
Speaker 1: there were I was around other kids too, there were Latinos,
Speaker 1: were a little bit of everything. We also had a
Speaker 1: lot of African Americans. It was very mixed, so I
Speaker 1: would try to find, you know, where to fit in
Speaker 1: sometimes and it wasn't difficult. But there was a moment
Speaker 1: I went to school younger in Hyalia and then my
Speaker 1: mom ended up having to move for any any Miami people,
Speaker 1: you know where I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Hayli. Anyways, we moved to Brown sub which is like a.
Speaker 1: More African American oriented hood, and it was very African
Speaker 1: American and we were like the only Latinos in the
Speaker 1: neighborhood and we really.
Speaker 2: Felt it, but we didn't.
Speaker 1: We felt that when we had to talk or when
Speaker 1: we had to like put our music, but visually you
Speaker 1: couldn't tell the difference. We were just in there, right.
Speaker 1: But my mom didn't know one little bit of English,
Speaker 1: and it was the thing. And I did get jumped.
Speaker 1: I got jumped by two girls in school, and the
Speaker 1: reason was because I felt that I was better than
Speaker 1: everybody because you know, you speak Spanish and da da
Speaker 1: da da, and you think that you're.
Speaker 2: Prepping it is okay there.
Speaker 1: I felt the like I felt the cultural gomoke a difference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I felt that they're you know, growing up, You're like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm too black to be Latin and I'm too Latina
Speaker 1: to be black, So where is it that I exactly belong?
Speaker 1: Like you're trying to find that you know where to
Speaker 1: fit in and and that was the thing growing up.
Speaker 1: But going back into my older memories of my youth
Speaker 1: when I was younger, when I was like four years old.
Speaker 1: I hope that my daughters one day get to hear this,
Speaker 1: because regardless, I'm going to tell them and make sure
Speaker 1: that they know that their lives is so lit in comparison.
Speaker 2: To mind my mom.
Speaker 1: I was like about four or five years old, and
Speaker 1: I still remember that my mom did have uh no,
Speaker 1: you know documents. She she was undocumented, and she was
Speaker 1: working as a cook, and she would literally hide me
Speaker 1: like wait, you know. She would leave me in the car,
Speaker 1: wait till her boss would leave, and would sneak me
Speaker 1: inside the kitchen and she would get the boxes, like
Speaker 1: the boxes of the containers and put it on the
Speaker 1: floor and she would let me sleep there. And she
Speaker 1: would throw little towels like the towels from the cook
Speaker 1: you know, from being in the kitchen, and throw it
Speaker 1: over me so that I could sleep and she could
Speaker 1: watch me because she couldn't afford to get a babysitter.
Speaker 2: And in a lot of these places.
Speaker 1: She was always afraid that if they find out she
Speaker 1: doesn't have no papers, they would, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: deport her, and then what would she do with me?
Speaker 2: Because I was American? But she wasn't, so she was
Speaker 2: always scared of what am I supposed to do? What's
Speaker 2: gonna happen?
Speaker 1: And I and I always sometimes, you know, get into
Speaker 1: my emotional space where I cry, because whenever she would
Speaker 1: hear that her boss would come, she would make me,
Speaker 1: she would wake me up, she would make me get
Speaker 1: up and hide, and I would have to like hide
Speaker 1: behind the refrigerator or whatever, because she wasn't allowed to
Speaker 1: have obviously a child inside a kitchen, a hot ass kitchen,
Speaker 1: and she would do those things. And sometimes we would
Speaker 1: go home into like, you know, a little efficiency. We
Speaker 1: used to live in efficiency for those that don't know,
Speaker 1: it's like a small little house that they do on
Speaker 1: the side of a house that's in many occasions illegal.
Speaker 1: And I would watch her cry, and I would, you know,
Speaker 1: as a little girl, I didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 1: I would put my hands over here and like it's
Speaker 1: going to be okay, I mean, don't cry, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: and she would cry because she would see all the
Speaker 1: struggles that she was going through as a single mother,
Speaker 1: as an immigrant, as a black Latina, as everything.
Speaker 2: You know, it was very very difficult times.
Speaker 1: And whenever I think of where I am now, I
Speaker 1: really realize how far I've come. But I think all
Speaker 1: those experience wasn't you know? It was important for me
Speaker 1: to build my character and to be appreciative of the
Speaker 1: things that I have now, which brings me to think
Speaker 1: my daughters won't have to necessarily go through those things.
Speaker 1: And I want them to struggle to a certain extent,
Speaker 1: and I mean it in the best way, because I
Speaker 1: want them to understand the importance of hard work, of
Speaker 1: what it is to work hard for what you want
Speaker 1: and not just expect things to be handed to you
Speaker 1: because mommy is famous or rich or whatever.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I want you to struggle to a certain extent where
Speaker 1: you're like, damn, this.
Speaker 2: Is hard on me.
Speaker 1: Exactly do you need to work for yours? Not because
Speaker 1: I don't want to give it to you. I just
Speaker 1: want you to have, you know, good work ethic. I
Speaker 1: want you to understand what it is to, like, you know,
Speaker 1: be out here and work, because I had to go
Speaker 1: through it, and I've said it and I've said it before.
Speaker 1: Like many immigrants Joan the Florida here, like I used
Speaker 1: to sell flowers in the streets, like you would never think,
Speaker 1: oh my, I was that girl with my mom and
Speaker 1: the stop sign, you know, going lane by, laying in
Speaker 1: the cars, you know, selling flowers and we would give
Speaker 1: out flyers. We did the flyers in the car thing too.
Speaker 1: I would clean houses with my mom and my mom,
Speaker 1: you know, I remember. That's why I'm so grateful to her.
Speaker 1: Like people can tell me whatever they want. My mom
Speaker 1: is untouchable. I remember my mom used to cry sometimes,
Speaker 1: she will get emotional.
Speaker 2: You know, she's a mom, she's a woman.
Speaker 1: To see me with the little palito cleaning, you know,
Speaker 1: cleaning the toilets and stuff, being like I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe eleven twelve, and I was doing it to help her.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: And she would just watch me and cry and be
Speaker 1: like no, Yola ago And I'm like, no, how many lady.
Speaker 2: And it's tough. It is.
Speaker 1: It is very tough to come from an immigrant household
Speaker 1: and become a success story.
Speaker 2: And if you are, if you.
Speaker 1: Come from the same type of household, yo, be thankful
Speaker 1: to your parents. Go give them a hug, Go go
Speaker 1: just say thank you because you have a better life
Speaker 1: because of the sacrifice that they were willing to do,
Speaker 1: you know, with their lives for you. And I think
Speaker 1: that sometimes, like I said before, we're not as grateful
Speaker 1: as appreciative as we as we should. And you know
Speaker 1: something that's important to talk about as well, even if
Speaker 1: it's for two seconds. Listen, Listen. I don't care if
Speaker 1: you're an immigrant from Russia. I don't care if you're
Speaker 1: an immigrant from Haiti. I don't care if you're an
Speaker 1: immer from Jamaica. I don't care if you're an immigrant
Speaker 1: for whatever part of the world.
Speaker 2: You are human.
Speaker 1: Yes, you deserve to be respected, You deserve to be
Speaker 1: treated as a human being.
Speaker 2: You deserve to have health care.
Speaker 1: You deserve that if you feel ill, if you feel sick,
Speaker 1: not be afraid to go to a hospital, to go
Speaker 1: to a clinic because you're scared that they're going to
Speaker 1: deport you back and then just let you die. You know,
Speaker 1: That's one of those things that really pissed me off
Speaker 1: because I feel like a lot of people feel that they're.
Speaker 2: Superior because they were born in this country.
Speaker 1: But a lot of those a lot of those same
Speaker 1: doctors that save your ass, that save other human beings,
Speaker 1: come from an immigrant household, Okay, And if they didn't
Speaker 1: come from an immigrant household, they might be.
Speaker 2: An immigrant themselves. Period overall, not just their parents them.
Speaker 1: They could have come in when they were young or
Speaker 1: whatever and decided, you know what, I'm going to study
Speaker 1: medicine and I am going to save people's lives. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that have very important roles in
Speaker 1: this country that come from an immigrant household, whether there
Speaker 1: is that they can work in the government, whether they
Speaker 1: are attorneys, whether they're doctors, whether.
Speaker 2: They're whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Even music wise, as an artist, your favorite artists may
Speaker 1: come from an immigrant.
Speaker 2: Household as well. Finally, let's see what that can most
Speaker 2: of us, do you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it's like, if you like our music, if you
Speaker 1: like the trend, if you like this, guess what. They
Speaker 1: come from an immigrant household, and we have to be
Speaker 1: supportive of them, especially when we see a lot of
Speaker 1: immigrants crying over that guy and stuff like this, like
Speaker 1: they want to All they're.
Speaker 2: Crying for is for education.
Speaker 1: We are here because we want to study. We want
Speaker 1: to be educated. We want to be educated so that
Speaker 1: we could be part of the society and make this
Speaker 1: a better place for the rest of us, whether it
Speaker 1: is through technology, whether it is through as a nurse
Speaker 1: in Bora. So the immigrant topic is something that we
Speaker 1: can talk about all day and I'm very passionate about,
Speaker 1: but I think it's important that we support, especially now
Speaker 1: that you know soon we'll be having to votes. Like
Speaker 1: I never really understood the importance of voting and how
Speaker 1: much that can really change not only the community that
Speaker 1: you live in, but the country that you live in
Speaker 1: and the decisions that are going to be made based
Speaker 1: off one vote. So I'm not pushing a bit of
Speaker 1: go out there and vote. If we really do believe that,
Speaker 1: you know, there should be more opportunities for immigrants or
Speaker 1: whatever immigration laws, do something about it by voting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love this. I love this episode. I love
Speaker 3: the fact that we gave those flowers and the love
Speaker 3: and light to you know, our parents coming from another
Speaker 3: another place that is not the United States of America
Speaker 3: and being able to work, survive, push give us what
Speaker 3: we needed now what we wanted all the time, because
Speaker 3: we still got what we wanted, but right well, you know,
Speaker 3: we got what we needed. Today's been a good topic.
Speaker 3: Is there anything you want to send our friends who
Speaker 3: are listening home, Something fun, you know, something good, something educational,
Speaker 3: something that you know, I know deep down inside only
Speaker 3: you can give our audience.
Speaker 1: You know, I know a lot of people that are
Speaker 1: embarrassed from their parents because their parents don't speak English,
Speaker 1: or because your parents are still stuck with their own
Speaker 1: cultural ways and dress a certain way, or talk a
Speaker 1: certain way, or eat certain food.
Speaker 2: Or or whatever. Be proud of your parents.
Speaker 1: Be proud of the parents who raised you, of their
Speaker 1: parents who put you on the place that you are today.
Speaker 1: Be grateful rather better of the opportunities that you have
Speaker 1: today because of the sacrifices that your parents, your grandparents,
Speaker 1: whoever it was, did in order for you to have
Speaker 1: a better future. And never deny being Latino. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter where you're from. Be proud of your ancestors. Be
Speaker 1: proud of your culture.
Speaker 2: Be proud of eating free holicos.
Speaker 1: Be proud of you know, your your aro, kungwandule or
Speaker 1: your mangou.
Speaker 2: Or whatever it is. Be proud of your music, of
Speaker 2: the music that you hear in your country.
Speaker 1: Don't lose the essence of of your culture because with time,
Speaker 1: one generation to the other, it kind of starts to
Speaker 1: fade little by little. Don't let your generation lose it,
Speaker 1: and also encourage other people. Tell other people about your culture.
Speaker 1: That's another beautiful way for us to connect with each other.
Speaker 1: Share those experiences, share the food, share the music, share
Speaker 1: share it.
Speaker 2: You know, we are a big family. We're a Latino family.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter we're from different parts of you know,
Speaker 1: Latin America, we're still Latinos.
Speaker 2: And if you're not Latino, but you can relate to
Speaker 2: the Latino.
Speaker 1: Culture and you like it and you feel inspired, whether
Speaker 1: it is through the music or whatever, support us. We're
Speaker 1: one big family, you know, and I'm just proud of
Speaker 1: who we are as Latinos.
Speaker 2: Overall. This is truly Michael Dura and I always want
Speaker 2: to share that with you. Guys.
Speaker 1: Alex as always, thank you so much for being part
Speaker 1: of exactly a Matter, for sharing your stories, for just
Speaker 1: being on.
Speaker 2: You know, for being unfiltered.
Speaker 3: You always, thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that this episode really has some substance. Guys,
Speaker 2: listen as usual.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to Exactly Amada.
Speaker 2: And like I.
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