There couldn’t be a video that exemplifies more the term of acceptance than this. This is Christina Aguilera’s Beautiful and it depicts how all individuals are beautiful regardless of what others think. Whether society accepts them or not doesn’t matter, like Christina says, “'Cause you are beautiful no matter what they say/Words can't bring you down, oh no/You are beautiful in every single way/Yes, words can't bring you down, oh no/So don't you bring me down today”. Check the video out!
I recently found out that my cousin is gay. When I first heard the news I was taken aback because I would’ve never guessed he was gay. However, after the shock subsided and I acknowledged that he was gay my feelings towards him didn’t change at all. My parents brought me up to be a person who accepts and respects everyone regardless of things like race, religion, or sexual preferences. So, I love my cousin to death and his sexual preferences don’t affect that at all.
What worried me, however, was how his family was going to respond to the news. They are a very traditional Mexican family. Because of this I assumed that they weren’t going to be accepting about his sexual preferences.
However, when I decided to do some research about the topic, what I found surprised me. Apparently the Mexican community is one of the most accepting of the LGBT community. In fact, homosexuality was never explicitly banned in Mexico. Also Mexico City now has a new definition of marriage. The new definition of marriage is the "the free uniting of two people" instead of the previous "one man and one woman. You’ll find more great information in this article.
