The first subtopic the chapter talks about from the Anglo-american and Mexicanization period is class. A lot of the population at this time was a lot of immigrants from the Mexicanization of the Chicano population. In 2010 there were 308 million residents in the United States. Since there was so many Mexicans and Latinos this meant that there will be a lot of changes because of how diverse United States was becoming in 2010. The Latinos …show more content…
We see that as more Mexicans migrate to the Unites States there is massive change in culture. Most of the cities and regions transformed to Mexicanization. One of the changes was bringing the language Spanish to the Unites States this made it possible for bicultural education to happen. Some good things that occurred was that the Mexican government allowed immigrants to maintain Mexican citizenship with full rights even if they also became American citizens. Not everyone was happy with so many Mexicans migrating to the United States, Americans were getting used to the idea of new culture being incorporated with theirs. Many of the students were struggling with education, they fought for improvement for finding jobs so they could afford paying for school. The way the Chicano community grew was through churches, there were a lot of churches that organized public services for everyone who needed anything. This created the Chicano community more united and increased the voice of Chicanos to stand up for themselves and stand together. There different types of Chicanos that were now part of the United States. Not all of the Chicanos who migrated to the United States, some were bad and were looking for trouble. One of them were cholos they were gang members who were considered as positive influence because they lived a reckless life. Many of the Chicanos were now called Latinos, a lot of people identify them through multiple names because there were a lot of immigrants from everywhere who got there name from where they came