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

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INTERVIEW: Francis Yanez Page 32 VM: find the same rapport or atmosphere with their own. FY: I do. I really do. I think we've ah---carried this on through the years and---and we still do it at home, you know. I---you still talk about, you know, Old Mexico and about, you know--­well, we do anyway, you know, around here---about the kind of training and the things that we went by and why we should try and get along, you know. VM: Yes, but you find this within your, say your own family, but do you find it with the other younger Mexicans? Or is this being lost? FY: Well,---the only thing is---a lot of it is lost, but when you start to talk to them, they come around. You know what I mean? And I think this is---this is our, as far as my parents, like me, you know---I think this is our fault because we haven't got it out to the kids, you know. But once I start to talk with them, because I mingle a lot with the teen-age Mexicans alot, you know, on account of this queen campaign that's going on over at the Mexican Civic Center, and then we have the Battle of the Bands for the kids, you know--­especially the Mexican groups, you know, and I mingle with them, and once you start talking to them, they're with you--­wUh tha Mexican, you know, and they want to learn more and the atmosphere, you know, is good with them. They're really