Why Assimilate, When You Could Be Yourself?

To assimilate means to become comfortable with others costumes and to use them yourself. There's many people now a days trying to assimilate to things that are not them; many of them just want to fit in. In A Raisin In The Sun,  Beneatha herself worries that she may be an "assimilationist". In order for Beneatha to fit in she keeps "mutilating", as Asagai refers it, her hair. As we probably all know, Beneatha's hair is not the same way it was as when she was born so, she gets a straight perm just to fit in societies rules of a white woman. This play uses assimilation as a weakness because the characters are so in wrapped in a white community that they try to fit in as whites themselves. It's just like nowadays, people will do anything to fit in. They would even go hang out and start acting like people of other races or other color. I usually dont assimilate in to other races, dont ever act another race nor i try to be them. Eric Liu , however, never had intentions of becoming white on the inside, it just sort of happened. There were many event in his lifetime that managed to change him into a "banana".

Family Comes First.

The title explains it all. There's no doubt in my mind that my family will always come first. Yes there might be times where i cant stand them and when i want to do my own thing but at the end of the day they are who i want to thank for everything, literally everything. I'm not the type of person who usually judges at first sight, if you love yourself more than you love your family, that's cool, who am i to judge? 
 Anyways, back to my family, like i said before they come first in everything. If i have something new i want to wear i go to them or if i have a problem I'm not able to deal with i go to them, no matter what it is they are always first. They are the ones who i want to thank for pushing me so hard to do the best i can! 

Living The American Dream

Many people ask me how I'm so smart or how do i do it all at once.. Well there really is no answer to it, i do everything i can to live the American dream (and succeed).  
But Iliana.. You're not American.. Yeah, yeah i know.. 
  I was born in Mexico in a nice small neighborhood. Family of 5 living paycheck to paycheck it was hard but we never gave up. One day finally i step foot here in America. At first i thought it wasn't so different, except for the street names and sings being in a different language and all,
 but then i stared to notice how much freedom everyone here has. How different people treat you (in a good way), the way people live their everyday lives, it was a completely different routine, a routine I'm still getting used to. 
    Now I'm here 7 years later, in a college class while in high school. Taking everyday as a mountain and climbing it all the way to the top, making my family proud and telling them everyday that I'm living The American Dream. 

The Twin That REALLY Matters

Hey! What's up? Iliana here :D aka the twin that really matters ;).As you Can see i have a twin with the same first name, uniquer ight ;o? Haha, It can be really confusing if you dont know me. We may be twins but we are comepleatly different people. Born and raised in Mexico, moved to the U.S when i was around 8 years old, Still getting used to how things work here in school, its completely different in Mexico:O! I LOVE One Direction, proud Directioner <3! I'm in the South West Color Guard, Love it!!

I Love to travel to different places around the world, i wish someday I can go to Venice, Italy and live there! Figuring out what i want to be when i grow up :), Thats my whole life in a little bitty paragraph :), my sister might say shes the twins that matters... its a lie... I'M the twin that REALLY matters ;)