I am a daughter of immigrant parents and sister. I was born in Argentina along with the rest of my family and at 2 months old my dad had the opportunity to work in America, more exact Long Beach, New York so we moved. On top of that I'm also Jewish, from both sides of the family.

My family origins came from Germany, Ukraine and mostly parts from Europe so for most people were White to the eye not Spanish. My mom, if I didn't mention was not working like my dad was, she struggled with the fact that she had zero family or friends to ask for help or talk to her. Being bi-lingual helped my mom a lot from both the Spanish and Jewish communities.

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Everyone goes through different events in life and the ones I went through made me realize that I needed to mature and grow up a little faster. By all means my parents were great, always trying to get involved but they didn't always understand which left me sometimes stepping up to become my own parents. I also struggled a lot with not being able to see my family and not having the opportunity to get close with them.

I've always been proud to show that I'm Jewish and then seeing shocked faces whenever I say that I'm an Argentinian Jew. The advantage of people not assuming my ethnicity is that I can see how racist and cruel people are and who not to go near. The disadvantage is that I'm scared to show that I'm Jewish or that I'm Spanish. I'm grateful my family has never witnessed or experienced anything discrimination.

My mom always played it safe she wasn't going to move to a country without green cards and soon as we got them she set off the process to get our citizenship's; that took a mere ELEVEN years. My parents probably very different to many were ecstatic to finally receiving our citizenship's while many families dont have to worry about it, of course there's no problem in that. This just shows how we view ourselves and what choices we have to take due to our identity.

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