Techno †Cihuatl: The Birth of a Modern Mexican Female. :: Culture Cultural Mexico Papers

Techno Cihuatl The Birth of a Modern Mexican feminineI learned ab pop out computers and technology a little at a time, from simple games, to web building and heavy use of applications. whatsoever of the knowledge came form a school setting around of it I acquired from trial and error and by a friends teachings I overcame the limitations of growing up in a Third-World rude (Mexico) with little gate to technology and tried to keep up with its changes as time went by. My country has had a love-hate relationship with the US for a long time. Within the vast Mexican middle class there are different opinions regarding the US way of life. While most people crave to have all(prenominal) single item of gringo-wealth such as electronics, clothing and even food, some others are deeply concerned about the loss of identity deethnicalization and hegemony that US-like cultivation has brought to Mexico. This phenomenon is particularly clear among the generation born in the seventies, especi ally women. preteen Mexicanas that are now in their middle twenties are tear apart between two worlds First, the technology driven college education and course that are the symbols of US - imported woman liberation. Second, the motherhood housewife roles traditionally imposed on them by the Mexican culture along with their religious, mystical, and cultural implications. Instead of marrying both ideas into a nice middle term, Mexican social club (which is still a male dominated environment) tends to relegate them apart any you become a housewife, or a professional. I consider that these extremes are always detrimental. I was the first-born of a young couple fresh out of college. My parents belonged to the first generation of Mexicans that lost their political innocence (and correctness) with the students riots of 68 they were rebels by nature. My mother was a biochemical engineer in a society where women were supposed to be teachers or housewives. My father was the and one ou t of five sibling who finished college, and he worked in a transnational firm, which was very odd at the time. Unlike most of our relations, we were no strangers of technology, mainly because we imported many appliances from California, where my uncles lived. We had a black and dust coat TV my father listened music using certain tapes that looked like Nintendo cartridges and he also had acetate discs, we had no telephone, but we were the first family in our bury to get a microwave.