Growing up Latino

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 Hey Readers!


    From the Latino USA podcast, "How I Made It: From Med School Student To Cimafunk", I learned about finding your identity and how Erik Rodriguez dropped out of medical school to follow his dreams. His influence of music made his heart beat and helped him find his purpose. He went against his families wishes and folles his dreams. He followed his dreams without knowing anything about music other than the music he listened to and loved. 

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                                                Erik Rodriguez Iglesias Cuban band Cimafunk

I love that they shared Erik's story and now more people can see what he did and stop letting what other tell you to do and to follow your heart. I didn't like that they asked him more about his transition from medicine to music and how it effect his relationship with his family. I think they should speak about more about latino first gen college students or Latino kids pursuing a different career than their parents with no connections. 

While Erik is able to follow his dream most are no able to have the same luxuries. Soledad Aviles had a dream of owning a house but according to "Defrauding the American Dream: Predatory Lending in Latino Communities and Reform of California's Lending Law" Nicole Lutes Fuentes, Soledad was taken advantage of with his loan. He had to rent out rooms to barely keep up with they payment and was not able to refinance due to the housing crisis. According to the Aspen Institute we have to potential to follow our dreams and aspirations but we lack the opportunity. What we need is higher quality jobs buy increasing salaries and benefits. 

While we still have the same institutions as the past we need to grow and progress with the times. How we do that is to let the opportunities of latinos flourish while giving them the same opportunities at all other Americans.

https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/future-american-dream-latino/ 
 This is a short video about the lack of access to capital that latinos have. 

Work Cited

Corea, Nicole. “The Future of the American Dream Is Latino.” The Aspen Institute, 20 Mar. 2018, www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/future-american-dream-latino/.  

Fuentes, Nicole Lutes. “Defrauding the American Dream: Predatory Lending in Latino Communities and Reform of California's Lending Law.” California Law Review, vol. 97, no. 4, 2009, pp. 1279–1335. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20677907. Accessed 3 Sept. 2021.

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