America benefits from its many immigrants. Asian entrepreneurs have helped revive inner city LA. Haitians and Jamaicans who have stabilized the neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn. Indian programmers have spurred so much innovation in places like Silicon Valley and Boston’s Route 128.
Unfortunately, Mexicans while known for being great workers, we are eternally enclaved in our communities where we rely on government hand outs instead of relying or our resources and that of your friends. 40% of high school Mexicans will drop out of high school. Of the 60% of us who graduate from high school, only 4 -6 graduates is ready for college, and of the 6 ( at best) 3 are stuck at remedial courses in college. This is the cycle that our uneducated Mexican parents have put us through, Is this what we want for our children?
What can we do about it? First, lets help our parents assimilate the culture. If they are in love with Mexico so much, encourage them to go back and I will bet anything that they will be back in no time. They must learn the language for if they do not, they can never advanced at their jobs and thats what its all about, making the green.
Secondly, lets get educated, for us and for our children. For some of us, a technical career will suffice. We cant all get BAs, or even a Doctorate. Plumbers make a great living. Lets encourage our children to be educated and lets show them our parents as an example. Tell them, your grandparents are great people, but they never learned English or went to school and so they were disadvantaged against those immigrants that did. Let our children know why we were brought to the land of dreams and that we must not let that dream die with our parents.
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