There Ain’t No Príncipe Azul Out There
So I’m a twentysomething, educated Latina, and obviously my Mexican relatives are all too eager for me to get married and start pumping out babies. It’s just their way. Imagine my disappointment to realize why the fact that I’m Latina, single and ready to mingle wasn’t just my problem.
Again, I turn to the brilliant and hilarious Gustavo Arellano of Ask A Mexican to explain away my conundrum:
“…one reason you’re having a hard tiempo finding Mexi men is that there are simply not enough people like you or your brothers. The 2008 report “Advancing in Higher Education: A Portrait of Latina/o College Freshmen at Four-Year Institutions, 1975-2006,” published by the Higher Education Research Institute at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, discovered a widening education gap between Latinas and Latinos: According to the study, chicas constituted 60.8 percent of first-time, full-time Latino freshmen in universities in 2006 (the last full year researchers could cite for their stats); chicos, on the other hand, made up just 39.2 percent of the total.”
¡Hijole, qué gacho!
At least now I have a new excuse for my abuelita….
[Imagie via icaromoreno]
