18. How Do You Explore Your Cultural Identity?

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you say “taco” or “thaco”? “Queso” or “Kay-so”? As 4th generation Mexican-Americans, we connect to our culture in different ways than our first generation relatives and friends. Today we talk about what it means for us to be Latino and how we express our own cultural identities as siblings, in honor of Latino Heritage Month. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spoiler alert: music is a huge part of our cultural identities. Here are the songs and playlists we mention, specifically:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Las Mañanitas -</span> <a href= "https://universaldomainexchange.com/vivacue2/las-mananitas/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> origin and lyrics</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sobre Las Olas - a Mexican Waltz,</span> <a href= "https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-society-for-american-music/article/sobre-las-olas-cultural-synecdoche-of-the-past/AD51D99A005BD9434AD3B78365F1C9F4"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">info at Journal of the Society of American Music</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjnhGwxQkFk"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">El Rey by Vicente Fernandez</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2yHCuoCYfcinQpKZDSWG2D?si=kP0aGNLsQ4qayAdlhC8X2Q"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael’s Spotify playlist of Mexican composers</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/somos-voces/pl.c6d7004d32b74173ae1d6e54158230c2"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Apple Music’s Somos: Voces playlist</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://music.apple.com/us/multi-room/1529010780"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The full Somos music collection representing Latinx heritage</span></a></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael’s new cookbooks:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-w