I'm 35thish generation WASP so no interesting background here, but the wife has a lot to be proud of and truly has experienced the American dream.
Her grandma was born in 35 in Zacatecas and her great grandmother thought that she was needed at home doing chores so she never allowed her daughter to attend school to learn to read and write Spanish or really do anything but cook, clean, and run the ranchito (even at 88 now she can still kill/clean a chicken really fast, but now she usually just buys em pre kilt. Age ruins everything)
Grandma had wife's mom in 65 and then in 80 paid what little money she had to have her cross into the USA to attend high school and live with family in Los Angeles. Mom gets to LA as a 15 year old and is told she needs to drop out and get a job to support her LA family so she does.
Wife is born in 95 to a 60 year old deadbeat dad and her 30 year old mom and then mom eventually leaves and takes all 4 kids with her. They eventually reach Texas where mom works in a poultry factory until she has to quit due to the pain of being a factory worker for 30 years.
My wife saw all of this and knew she didn't want to live that way so she did great in high school, got herself her BA in Spanish, her masters in Education, and now teaches a 2nd grade class that is half in English and half in Spanish which she thinks is the best job on the planet helping kids like she was keep their culture. She's been through shit I can only imagine compared to my Andy Bernard Baylor legacy life, but she "made it".