Narrative Essay About Mexican Culture

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When I was young I used to live in Mexico. Apart from being a beautiful country filled with unique cultures and traditions it is also the home of one of the world’s largest slums. The biggest one of these is the Neza-Chalco-Itza in Mexico City, which has a population of 4 million people. A majority of these were children, the same as me and my sister but not as privileged. We lived in Mexico City and when we would go out we would see crowds of children playing in the streets, either with broken tires, ripped footballs or anything they could get their hands on. On this certain day there was something different about them. As usual they were poorer, a couple of years older than me and less privileged but there was something else different that day. As we walked closer to them it became obvious, they were high. Near their feet we could see opened glue sticks and as a child of four years old I was confused. I would ask my dad, “What were they doing with those glue sticks?” He wouldn’t answer; But when I asked why he would say “because some of them have nothing better to live for, so why not”. We would often see kids like this and we knew they didn’t have much longer; but there was …show more content…
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