Latino children share how they’re figuring out their place in the United States while making their way toward adulthood.
More than a quarter of children growing up today in the United States identify as Latino, a percentage expected to grow in coming decades.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, The Washington Post sought out the voices and stories of five children to describe what it is like to grow up Latino in the United States in 2022.Growing up, Manuela De Armas wanted nothing more than to change her name. She was one of four Venezuelan students at her elementary school in a South Florida suburb. And she didn’t like feeling different.her mother enrolled her in a summer camp with mostly Venezuelan kids.
“People put me in different boxes all the time, so you end up having no clue as to what you identify as,” said Manuela, 16. “Because the truth is, my experience can’t be summed up into a neat and perfect box.” The 7-year-old goes to a bilingual school, though most of her classmates who are Latino are Mexican American, not Cuban. He feeds her a mix of traditional Cuban and American food, from chicken strips and hamburgers to platanitos and picadillo. On the afternoons when Isabella turns on the TV, many of the shows are dubbed in Spanish — a function her dad discovered on the remote and has kept permanent to help her learn the language.
She speaks Spanish conversationally but still stumbles over it, mixing up her verbs or referring to a dance as a “bailo” instead of a “baile.” She talks mostly to her little brother in English but loves to call him “tonto” — or silly — when he is acting bothersome.intentional about keeping it alive.
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