Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Francis Yanez Page 13 FY: I can see a lot of difference, you know, where---where our kids have got babies, you know, got family, and then where they have a baby-sitter and---oh, my gosh! There's so many things they do now, you don't---you wish you had the money to do it, you know, a lot of it. But you can't afford, but there's a lot of activity going on now. VM: Do you think the younger Mexicans, do they visit as much among each other or the same fashion as the old ones do FY: Some of them. Not too much. For instance, now---my daughter----­see, I have a daughter that's married, two daughters that are married, and then I have a teenager at home. Thus, it's ---I'm involved with the Mexicans Civic Center which is a civic organization with the Mexican people, and when you ask me these things, we didn't have, we didn't have one in those times for many years as I can remember, but---but we have---we had one now for the last---oh, that I could remember, for the last twenty-seven years. And so my daughter has got involved with the Mexican Civic Center, my married girl and my younger sixteen-year old because I'm active in the--in the civic---in our civic program, because we want to keep the cultural Old Mexico, the language, the dances, the food, so that they can remember that they are Mexicans and they're not to be ashamed to be Mexicans. I remember very many years