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Culture: 2 families, 2 very different cultures and the little girl between them from New York Times

I read an article about a young mexican girl named Linda. She was used to eating tortillas, taking care of her younger sibilings, being abused, and translating Spanish to english and vice versa, for her mom's benefit. with a dramatic change of a judge's say, she now temperarilly lives in a ranch house with a swimming pool in the backyard, and her own bed to sleep in. There will be a custody trail, debating whether Linda will live back in Mexico with little to none opportunities or in Tennesse in a foster home with all the care she needs. The culture in Mexico and the culture in America have two totally different outlooks. In Mexico, many families consist of numerous children who take care of one another, tortillas, not a lot of money, a rough, low paying job and more. While in America, there are much better opportunities to succeed, more money circulating with higher paying jobs, and smaller families where the adults are usually able to watch over their own kids and feed them. Linda is living the life and it has been such a drastic change for her to have lived in Mexico and then move to Tennesse and be able to play in the driveway with a basketball. First Linda lived with the first teacher she met, and soon moved in with the Pattersons, a family who now wants to adopt her.

Fact: "There is at least a third of those who are Mixtecs, who come from a poor area of central Mexico and whose language and culture keep them isolated here in the United States, even from other Hispanics."