Crystal Perez never tried to hide her Mexican heritage.
Perez, a University of Wisconsin-Parkside senior studying communications, speaks Spanish fluently especially at home, where she still celebrates her family’s cultural traditions, such as Las Posadas and Tres Reyes, or the Three Kings during the Christmas season.
But in school, at work, and at just about every social setting outside her home Perez was just “Crystal” to her friends, teachers, acquaintances and others. She spoke English with no accent, didn’t really use her Spanish around them, and in fact, many of her classmates, as a result, never thought of her as Mexican American. READ FULL STORY
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