Gary Soto's Like Mexicans: Personal Experiences
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My decision to write in response to Gary Soto's work, “Like Mexicans”
was influenced for the most part because of the similarities between myself and
Gary Soto, and our families included. Gary Soto is a Mexican American male, who
grew up in the San Joaquin Valley in the industrial part of a to ....
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.... grandparents, although they ma y be a
generation behind one another, I am sure were exposed to many of the same
hardships and or social barriers. It was not uncommon back then as it is not
uncommon today for Mexican families with minimal work skills to be forced into
the fields to work with their children alongside in hopes of escaping poverty.
For the most part such families remained poverty stricken due to unfair and
illegal wages and work conditions. However irrelevant this all may sound, ....
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