Majority of Mexican students don’t know the flag meaning
October 4, 2019
Surprisingly, most Morton East students don’t know what the colors of the Mexican flag represent, considering that most of us have Mexican roots.
In a random survey of 100 Morton East students, 79 did not know what the colors of the Mexican flag represent. The colors of the Mexican flag signify the following: green represents hope, white stands for purity, and red stands for the blood of those who died fighting during the war. Mexican Independence Day is celebrated on September 16. Mexican Independence Day is a very popular and well-known celebration that takes up two whole days out of the year. Mexico was celebrating its independence after being enslaved for 300 years by Spain since the early 1500s.
“Miguel Hidalgo leads the Mexican War for Independence,” said Morton student Monse Segundo that took a Spanish class for 3 years.
At Morton East, the Spanish teachers try to teach the culture, traditions, and history of Mexico.
“From my understanding, El Grito is when all of the soldiers cried out after finally winning their independence,” said Jose the security guard.
Most students know when and where Mexican Independence Day is celebrated. They also know many more events Mexicans celebrate.
“I think attending the parade on 26th street is one of the highlights of the whole celebration here in Cicero. There are horses, dancers, and big beautifully decorated floats,” said Youth Crossroads Claudia Campos.
Mexicans tend to celebrate in massive ways. During any celebrations, Mexicans go big and extreme while showing various bright colors and unique designs.
“In Mexico, there are big festivals known to celebrate El Cinco de Mayo, El Grito, 10 de mayo, Día del Niño, and El Día de los Reyes,” said Our local lunch lady at Morton East High School.
Celebrating Mexican Independence Day and other holidays is not new to Mexican culture. We usually like to go full out with any kind of celebration.
“I think Mexican Independence Day is more important than Cinco de Mayo because although Cinco de Mayo is Mexico winning La Batalla de Puebla, Mexican Independence Day is when we were finally free from Spain’s control,” said current Morton student Bryan Ocampo.
Father Hidalgo had about 90,000 poor farmers and Mexican civilians that believed in him and rallied under him to fight the Spanish. Some mistakenly believe that Cinco de Mayo is Mexico’s Independence Day. Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of the victory at the Battle of Puebla that took place in 1862. Each year El Grito is reenacted by the current Mexican President and the whole city participates. Each year at Cicero Community Park there is a festival.
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Jasmine Dominguez • Oct 9, 2019 at 4:55 pm
I think that the news should have some transitions words.
Jasmine Dominguez • Oct 9, 2019 at 9:31 am
This is an interesting topic because many people who are Mexican does not even know the flag meaning.
Christian • Oct 9, 2019 at 9:23 am
I think the students should be more informed about their background and where they really come from and how this took place in where we stand today as Latinos.
Berenice Anaya • Oct 9, 2019 at 9:18 am
This is a very interesting because the majority of the students in Morton East have Mexican roots. Overall the article is great, but the way you phrase things could use some improvement.
Anely Valdez • Oct 9, 2019 at 8:34 am
In my own point of view I find this shocking how many people don’t know what their own flag colors stand for. And for the people that say “I was born in mexico so I know my culture like the palm of my hand,” or “I’m Mexican” is disrespecting the name of Mexico. I just feel like if they really loved where they come from and their roots they would’ve known what one or 2 colors stand for.
Fernanda cardona • Oct 8, 2019 at 2:13 pm
I think it’s is important that people know what there roots are from.its sad to hear that many mexicans died in the hands of the Spain’s.
Jorge • Oct 8, 2019 at 2:12 pm
I think its terrible that Hispanics don’t know about their own culture. I think its important to know their back ground culture.
jair gutierrez • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:07 am
Its sad how a lot of people don’t know the meaning of the roots of their culture. Mainly its due to the fact that we don’t really learn about it in school. We just learn american history and culture but there should be a class where it teaches the students with different backgrounds their roots and their countries culture or history.
Jair gutierrez
Jaqueline Leanos • Oct 8, 2019 at 10:03 am
This is an agreeable article because it has some people’s opinions about the Mexican Independence. Also, the history of the Mexican flag was interpolated to the article, which makes the meaning of the colors of the Mexican flag more understandable. Finally, this article has good grammar and punctuation.
pablo Ortiz • Oct 7, 2019 at 2:46 pm
bruh how u gonna be mexican and not know the meaning of the colors, like bruh u are litterally mexican u should know
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Anahi • Oct 7, 2019 at 2:02 pm
I see this pretty funny because I’m a Latina and i didn’t even know what the colors meant. I liked this article is was pretty interesting.
Yasmine • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:46 pm
Very interesting article. Since the majority of Morton’s students are Mexican I would expect a higher number of students to know what the Mexican flags colors represent.
adviser • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:47 pm
Sheyly makes a good point. I can’t say I know what the red, white and blue stand for with the United States flag. And, I’ve been living here for 55 years.
Sheyly • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:29 pm
I don’t think that the topic is relevant because there are people in the united states who don’t know what the colors of the flag represent either.
Jared • Oct 7, 2019 at 10:26 am
i find this interesting cause most of this information i knew besides the part of the red part of the flag