One individual can easily be labeled to conform to fit into the bubbles put forth on the annual census. For myself: female and Hispanic. What is not an option is what defines me: proud, capable, and more than a statistic. Like many people my age, I must obey the rules set into view by strangers. Society is trying to dictate the path I should follow because I am female and I am Hispanic. Although our democratic society opens its arms to receive many people from different countries and offer opportunities, in the same breath it also hesitantly opens these same doors to some of its citizens. My whole life I have been able to categorize people into two groups: those who choose to address the social stigmas happening around us and those who don't. …show more content…
I am a woman, and I do not see that concept defining me in a negative light. I will not be defined by my superficial aspects about me like looks, but based off my intelligence and ability to do better in the world. On a similar note, also being Hispanic socially means I am less capable to do what others can. It lowers my entire ethnicity to the lowest of jobs and is a surprise when there is success, and coming from a middle-class family does not help my cause. The statistics say that though I will try, I will fail; that I will be no better than my elders and their elders and fall into poverty or have to live a life paycheck-to-paycheck. These stigmas are my motivation to do better for myself, and become the best possible version of me that I can be. I cannot fathom to see myself as anything less than successful in my future, the reason being because I am Hispanic. Failure is not an option, because I will not let simple bars on a graph be what defines me, or my ethnicity. I define myself as being one who does not let others define her; I have based my entire life on that notion and will continue to do so until the day I leave this Earth. When that day does come, believe in me when I say I will have made