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First Generational Guilt & the Silent Struggle of Latino Students By Jazmin Gutierrez Staff Writer The Latino community in the United States has faced many struggles racially, financially, being the minority, and many more difficulties. However, one of the most relevant struggles refers to the generational guilt that first generation children of immigrant parents face. This feeling of guiltiness is one that is not talked much about, but it is a feeling surrounding our minds and culture, and implicit in our daily interactions. The podcast Todo Chido Everything’s Cool, in an episode aired
on April 13, 2023, they touched base on our topic and explained this feeling that many of us encounter yet do not speak on widely enough, again due to feeling guilty. The podcast consists of two young Latino men and a young Latina woman; in this specific episode they have a guest speaker, Saúl Gómez, who is the
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host of his own podcast called I.E In Friends. The four live in California, Saul specifically lives in the Inland Empire, while the Todo Chido Everything’s Cool cast is based in Los Angeles. They are all young Latinos who grew up with immigrant parents and have lived their lives with modern technology and struggles they must face on their own for the first time with little to no guidance and living through a whole diverse set of cultures that is new to them as well as to their parents. Episode 15 titled Selling Your Soul with Saúl Gómez, he speaks on his experience having First Generational Guilt, which then the host from the podcast chimes in and agrees with him, sharing his own experience with the feeling of guiltiness. Saúl discusses how growing up with immigrant parents and seeing them struggle financially has resulted in him
having guilt for having more opportunities being a young Mexican American. Most of the time, immigrant parents will find a reliable job and stick through with it to make ends meet financially, even if this means not loving the job or the labor hours that come with it. In most cases these jobs are not high wage jobs or high labor jobs which tend to be filled with employees being minorities in this country.
That is where the guilt of being a first-generation Latino kicks in. While our parents are out trying to keep up with this ‘American dream’ they came to the United States with, the sons and daughters are out facing this side that the parents have never dealt with. Along with discrimination, there is always a positive side, which in this case would be the opportunities that our parents so desperately have wanted to provide for us our whole lives. While we are out having new positive experiences like attending college, obtaining our dream jobs, not having to struggle financially, feeling safe, and while we grow and accomplish our dreams, we see our parents living in the same cycle trying to keep up with their version of this ‘dream life’ yet it is never enough to take them out of the cycle. I connected the podcast episode to Gloria Anzaldúa’s La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness, with the sense of not belonging neither here nor there. This correlates because as us being exposed to these opportunities, which we are more than capable of accomplishing, the guilt of seeing our immigrant parents keep the cycle of struggling while we move up, makes it feel as if doing better than them is wrong. This guilt leads first generation Latinos to feel as if there is no way of belonging with the American side because it feels wrong to become more successful than our parents even though that has been their goal since they moved to accomplish their ‘American Dream’.
Crafting Perfect Portraits:
Mastering the Professional Camera By Federico Cardonato Staff Writer Portrait photography is an art that captures the beauty and emotions of an individual. Using a professional camera to take portraits can significantly enhance the quality and depth of your images. However, achieving the perfect portrait involves more than just clicking the shutter button; it requires a combination of technical knowledge, creativity, and interaction with the subject. As a professional portrait photographer myself, experiencing this type of art, and capturing memories that will always be remembered is truly the reason why it’s so addicting. To start, selecting the right gear is essential to capture stunning portrait images. There are two different types of camera bodies to choose from: DSLR, and Mirrorless. DSLR cameras are much larger and heavier due to the mirror and prism system integrated into the body. Essentially, DSLR cameras use
a mirror to reflect light into an optical viewfinder. Mirrorless cameras have no mirror, therefore, light goes directly to the image sensor. Mirrorless cameras are smaller and lighter. Personally, when I started, I had a DSLR, but I switched to a mirrorless for that lighter and smaller design.
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