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

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INTERVIEW: Francis Yanez Page 30 FY: Of course, I do too, but for instance, a lot of the kids don't want to cook from scratch, you know, where we still cook from scratch. VM: Mmm, yes. FY: Now, fortunately, my daughter is sixteen and---and because I taught her these things, and my girls do, do cook from scratch. For instance, they still make Tortillas, you know, and where the other girls come in, they'll say, how come you're cooking beans? Why don't you buy canned stuff?, you know. Or, why don't you buy ah---tortillas already made, you know, and then they want to live in a better environment. This they believe in, you know. They want to have a better looking home. They want to have nicer furniture which we didn't have, you know. They want to have a gas stove. They want to have all the conveniences that everybody else has. And tfiey want the education. The only thing that my daughter tells me, that there's lot of kids that won't fight back, you know. Like for instance, I know my daughter had a---I had a problem with her at school--­at Jackson when she was in Junior high. And there was a certain teacher that---that didn't care for the---for the Mexican, you know. Maybe like us, we won't care for a white, but in her position as a teacher, she shouldn't have done that, you know. She should have brought the matter to me and let me