Everything is Bigger in Texas
Where you live shapes who you are and shapes your views, whether good or bad, on the value of diversity. My view on diversity is positive because of the wonderful diversity and exchange of customs, traditions, and experiences living in Texas have given me. I have grown up all my live hearing people ridicule my city. Texas for many years was a joke and just saying the name “Texas” got laughs for many comedians because we are all suppose to be red necks.. But Texas, the home of blue bonnet, University of Texas, Longhorns, and many other fine schools, the Dallas Cowboys, which are America’s team, and many cultural, athletic, and business and entertainment opportunities is a great place to live. One of the best things about Texas, and perhaps one of the reasons why it is such a wonderful place to live, is its vast diversity.
Texas’s residents come from many countries, practice many different religions, eat many different foods, and have shared all of these differences, and their many different customs with all residents of the city. Texas has a little Mexican neighborhood, it is where Mexicans, Cubans live , so it is consider a Spanish neighborhood, and many regions where certain ethnic groups have grown businesses and opened wonderful restaurants. The city’s residents themselves come from widely diverse ethnic and racial groups yet all live well together, proud of their individual heritage and proud of their lives as Mcallen, Texas residents. As of the 2000 census the city of Mcallen had the following racial and ethnic residents: African American, 5.3%; Caucasian, 13.5%; Latino, 76.2%; and Asian/Indian, 1.6%. In comparison to Texas, whose population breakdown in the year 2000 was, respectively, 11.5%, 85%, 1.9%, and 1.4%, you can see how much more diverse the city of Mcallen is then the rest of Texas, which may be one of the many reasons why so many festivals and so many business and entertainment opportunities take place...