As a Latina immigrant myself who is currently in her senior year of college, I have always been interested in why Hispanic/Latino graduation rate is lower than Whites and Blacks in the United States. The Hispanic/Latino community is the biggest group in the United State, but why is the lowest with graduation rate. This got me to investigate, the social issue of education among Hispanics/Latinos community in the United State. More specifically, to what extent being Hispanics/Latinos immigrant or United States-born Hispanics/Latinos affect their education level; Why US-born Hispanic have a higher graduation rate than Hispanic immigrants? First, it’s important to understand who are Hispanics and/or Latinos. Hispanics are people of Spanish speaking and/or with Spanish origin. Hispanics was the term created by the Nixon government in 1960 to categories the large group of immigrants as “Hispanics.” Latinos are those who were born from Latin America countries; In other words, those that comes from Center America, The Caribbean Island and South America (Echeverria-Keck 2011). Latinos are people from Latin American and/or with Latin American origin. Someone could be Latino and not come from Mexico, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, they could be from Brazil. We can also think about it this way, Latinos are countries colonization by Spain (Echeverria-Keck 2011). Yet, they do not need to speak Spanish. Hispanic have a connection to Spain, therefore, they speak Spanish. In our
