Gabriella Ortega,
Riverside, CA.
I live in a world where my own kind thinks I’m a shame because I’m Mexican and don’t know Spanish. They think of me as a white girl but white people take one look at me and assume I know Spanish because I’m Mexican. Sometimes I begin to question myself along with others, What are you? At times I have no idea what I am because I’m stereotyped in two different races. All I want is for people to just look at me and accept that I am Mexican but I’m also Americanized.
