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Also, I think it was a question of comfort. I think the article said something about alot of Mexican women originally from urban areas married white men because they were more used to a certain lifestyle not involving agriculture. More intermarried couples lived in urban settigns in L.A. Also, whether the girl was from a farm or a city in Mexico, the fact that they could be better off money-wise was tempting. And if marrying a non-Mexican was an adjustment, well, everyone had to adapt to some changes. - Celia | Also, I think it was a question of comfort. I think the article said something about alot of Mexican women originally from urban areas married white men because they were more used to a certain lifestyle not involving agriculture. More intermarried couples lived in urban settigns in L.A. Also, whether the girl was from a farm or a city in Mexico, the fact that they could be better off money-wise was tempting. And if marrying a non-Mexican was an adjustment, well, everyone had to adapt to some changes. - Celia | ||
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| + | I found the section on "machismo" to be interesting because it was another environment, like the Anglo American household, the prided itself on male dominance. Typically Anglo American households did not revert to violence to ensure the gender divide (at least I don't think so) but to read the Chicano households saw it as a necessary evil really stuck out to me. I did not expect that coming from any household of the time period, really. -Kelly W. | ||
== Bonnie Thornton Dill == | == Bonnie Thornton Dill == | ||
