Pamela Espinoza Fletcher,
Redlands, CA.

This is what my ex mother in law said when asked about her son marrying a Mexican. I was offended but truthfully really didn’t understand coment. I guess prior to that I had just been me. My parents are both Mexican. My siblings and I were raised in a Spanish speaking home rich in Mexican culture. I honestly didn’t know how to be anything but Mexican. So what did ‘act Mexican’ mean? And how was I not “acting” Mexican? I believe to her a middle aged white woman, the fact that I didn’t speak Spanish to her or that I was able to speak English without an accent meant I didn’t act Mexican. In the end I never felt accepted by his family. It was a sore spot in my marriage that over the years festered and played a part in ending it.