Analysis Of 'Si Yo Pierdo Mi Familia Pierde'

On August the first, I was at the park, it was a really sunny day but I was trying to get back in shape before school starts. While I was trying to get back in shape I saw my friend Karina, therefore I stopped my 4 mile run and said “hi” after I said hi we started having a conversation consequently we started talking about how she was feeling this pressure that came from school and her parents. When I heard about how she was feeling, I remember the assignment that I had to do for my English class therefore I asked her if I could interview her for this assignment and surprisingly she agree

I started by explaining to her that I was going to ask her three simple questions, however I told her that if I knew I was getting something I could really

I asked Karina “What makes you remember this pressure?”. I asked her this question because I knew from my personal experienced that there’s constantly something that makes people who are under this type of pressure remember it.

The answer Karina gave was a phrase that she constantly repeats to herself, the phrase was “Si yo pierdo mi familia pierde” which means ( If I lose my family loses too). When she told me this I could imagine every scenario possible in which she could remember this phrase. I knew the pressure something like this could put on someone because like her I also had a phrase that my parents told me which was “In the future when you go to college and become a doctor, you will be able to give the same things to your family”.

I decided to ask her this specific third question because throughout whole interview I felt such a strong connection in our situations so I wanted to see if she felt the same way. The question I asked her would tell me how she deals with this pressure. I asked Karina “How do you deal with this pressure in your daily

I had agreed to meet with my friend jack, who’s a total nerd that focuses way too much on school so I could interview him. I decided to interview jack because he had told me throughout our middle school and our freshman year how his parents expect so much from him, and that’s why his the way he is toward school. As I was asking him questions I felt the same connection I did with Karina, therefore I decided to ask him the exact last question I asked Karina.

The answer jack gave me was “ I like to think of this pressure as something positive, so I use it to push myself on daily bases because even though my parents expect so much from me, I know they’re putting the standards high because they want a better future for me”

After the answer I got from jack I remember the answer I got from Karina because their situations were so similar to mine, however they reacted so different to this pressure because they use this pressure to push themselves and do more in their daily life and I think of this pressure as the think that doesn’t let me do other stuff in my daily life. As I got my result from the interviews and analyzed them, I realize that people can be in this ethnicity where they get pressure toward their academics but consequently I also realize that people in this ethnicity can deal with this pressure differently for example me in a negative way and Karina and Jack in a positive