Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, to a Mexican-American family.

我出生并成长于加州洛杉矶的一个墨西哥-美国混血家庭。

The Mexican-American War would last two years and claim some 40,000 lives.

美墨战争持续了两年，夺去了大约4万人的生命。

These were the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Spanish-American War.

它们分别是1812年战争、美墨战争和美西战争。

The pants likely belonged to John Dement, an Oregon merchant and veteran of the Mexican-American War.

这条裤子可能属于俄勒冈商人约翰·戴门特（音译），他是墨西哥-美国战争的老兵。

Invitations to Washington conferences arrived and I had the chance to travel abroad as a " Mexican-American representative."

我被邀请去参加华盛顿会议，并得到以“墨西哥裔美国人代表”的身份去国外旅游的机会。

She's Mexican-American, you know. But not such luck.

你知道, 她还是美墨混血. 不过, 没那么走运.

The remains of ten United States soldiers killed during the Mexican-American War are being returned 170 years after their deaths.

在美墨战争中丧生的士兵中，10名士兵的遗体在战争结束后170年的今天被送回美国。

A group of Mexican-American students paraded a Mexican flag during a school's section celebration of Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican holiday.

一些墨西哥裔美国学生在学校庆祝墨西哥五月节的时候举着墨西哥国旗游行。

Low riders originated in Los Angeles after World War II over the years they have become an important expression of Mexican-American culture.

跳跳车起源于第二次世界大战后的洛杉矶，多年来他们已经成为墨西哥裔美国人文化的重要表达。

When the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, Mexico and the United States signed an official agreement called the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

美墨战争在1848年结束时，墨西哥和美国签订了名为《瓜达卢佩-伊达尔戈条约》的正式协议。

Yet official policy reverted to all-out war against the gangs, fuelling a new exodus of migrants to the Mexican-American border, including numerous children.

然而萨尔瓦多发布的官方政策恢复了对黑帮的全面战争，促使新一批移民涌入美墨边境，其中包括许多儿童。

That holiday is mostly celebrated in Mexico, although other parts of Latin American and Mexican-American communities in the U.S. have celebrations as well.

虽然其他拉丁美洲和美国的墨西哥裔美国人社区也有庆祝，但这一节日主要在墨西哥庆祝。

Hundreds of people have converged on a remote Mormon farming community for the fierce funerals of nine Mexican-American women and children killed in an ambush.

上百人聚集在遥远的摩门农村公社，参加9名墨西哥裔美国籍女性和儿童，他们死于一场埋伏。

It's a popular Mexican, or Mexican American food.

这是一种流行的墨西哥或墨西哥裔美国人的食物。

For example, the father of Mexican-American musician Zack de la Rocha spent time working as an art director for Mister Chavez.

例如，墨西哥音乐家扎克·德·拉·罗查的父亲是查维斯先生的艺术指导。

There was, of course, the Mexican-American War that led to Mexico losing nearly half its territory and the nationalization of U.S. oil companies in the 1930s.

这当然不是第一次，美墨战争导致墨西哥失去了近一半的领土以及在上世纪30年代国有化的石油公司。

A 17-year-old chubby Mexican American girl struggling against cultural norms to fulfill her unlikely dream.

一个 17 岁的胖乎乎的墨西哥裔美国女孩为了实现她不太可能实现的梦想而与文化规范作斗争。

That caused another war, the Mexican-American War, but we won't have time to talk about that now.

那引发了另一场战争， 即美墨战争，但我们现在没有时间谈论它。

These aren't necessarily people from Mexico, but they are often Mexican American.

这些人不一定来自墨西哥，但他们通常是墨西哥裔美国人。

You could be French-American, you could be Mexican-American, and so forth.

你可以是法裔美国人，你可以是墨西哥裔美国人，等等。