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Profile: Mexican Teens

Gender: Male
Age: 16
Education
Education is readily available for children and teens in the urban areas of Mexico. Majority of Mexican
children attend primary school. However only 62% reach secondary school and out of that 62% only 45%
finish, either from dropping out or death (Rama, 2013, para. 3). Children in poverty are likely to attend
primary school but most teenagers dont attend. Future potential of these teens that drop out are likely
to be in gangs, as gangs require no special skills and little to no education.

Employment history and future:


Majority of teenagers in poverty have to bring home some sort of income to help support their parents
or most commonly their single parent. However these teens dont work at the typical grocery stores or
at a fast food restaurant. They work for gangs like the Mexican Mafia better known as Le Eme; this is
because gangs pay better than these minimal wage jobs, give a sense of family, protection and earns
respect to the individual. Being in a gang gives the teen a sense of power and control as the Mexico in
general is corrupt. A one night job as a look out or an order from a gang superiors is equivalent to an
entire weeks salary at a real job. Future prospects of these teens in being employed for a real job are
impossible. Once a teen joins or works for a gang they are in for life. They follow the gangs codes which
one of them is that once you join the Mexican Mafia, the only way to quit is through death (Mexican
Mafia the Hardest Gangs, History Channel). If you break any of the codes of the gang they will find you
and kill you .Teens joins gangs instead of regular employment because they dropped out of high school
to help bring income to the household. With gangs involving little to no special skills and education, with
a good pay joining a gang becomes highly desirable to teens. As the teen gets older they can move up in
the ranks of gangs.

Medical background and future:


Despite being the fattest country in the world (Durden,2013, para. 5), many Mexican teens and
families face hunger. With the majority of the population in poverty (52.3%) many are hungry (World
Bank, 2012, graph 3). Teens may have injuries from fights and cuts that usually occur within gang
occupancy. Death is not common for teens in gangs. Teens can be assigned assassination jobs which
involves gun fights. Teens may have faced or face natural disaster injuries or death previously or in the
future. Mexicos location is prone to volcanic activity, tsunamis along the Pacific coast, earthquakes and
hurricanes along the Pacific, Golf of Mexico and Caribbean coasts.

Social responsibilities and expectations:


The family has a strong impact on the teenagers dating life. Mexican families have a strong influence
and pressure on their children that they should only date people of the same ethnicity as them,
Mexican. Mexican families push their children into being better than the generation before them. The
expectation is to make more money than the parents in the future especially the male. Male teens treat
the parents with respect. The advice and requests that the parents give to the children are expected to
be completed and fulfilled. Grandparents are to be treated with the same or even greater respect than
the parents. If a teen has a sister the brother receives more authority and respect than the sister. Eldest
male sibling gets treated with the most respect and has the most authority of the siblings

Gender-specific expectations:

Boys dont cry.


The male gender must be strong
Must be masculine, when born the father gives a machete to their sons to establish their gender
role of being masculine.
Independent
Male children are expected to make more money than the previous generation.
Male has to support wife and children
Male makes the rules of the house
When married to a female, the male must be the one in charge and have power over the wife.
Being a brother of a sister in a family, the sister must treat the brother like a father.
I was born into 3 fathers and a single mother.

Leisure activities/entertainment:

Playing/watching football and baseball


Riding bicycles
Spending time with friends
Watching bull fighting
Listening to music.

Personal freedoms and liberties:

Mexican teens decisions are heavily based on parents decision.


Parents are always working which results in absence from the home. Results in teens to do
whatever they like with the lack of parent supervision.
Teens in gangs lose their independent freedom.
Once a teen joins a gang they are now a gangs property and have to do their biddings, jobs and
requests.
Teens cannot quit gangs other than through death.
Teens in gangs are not allowed to disrupt the flow of money and transactions within the gang
and their relations.

Geographical environment:
Mexico is located in the southern part of North America, also known as Middle America. Coordinates are
23 N and 102 W. 77.8% of Mexican population lives is urbanized areas and 22.2% lives in rural land.
Mexico has a variety of landforms that are found throughout the land. Major landforms include:
volcanos, rivers, mountains, peninsulas, plateaus and coastal plains.

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