However, Jargowsky does admit that “co-location serves to cement the identification of new immigrants as racially different from the majority, and ‘exposes second-generation children to the adversarial subculture developed by marginalized native youths.’” While Mexican culture is not to blame for the poor conditions which plague the city centers of Los Angeles, it does in a sense perpetuate the attitudes which contribute to the concentration of those poor conditions within ethnic enclaves. Once first-generation Latino immigrants realize the atmosphere of discrimination towards Latinos present in the white United States, their initial optimism for a successful future deteriorates into cynicism which passes on through successive generations.
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Chicanos, the second or third generation descended from the original Latino immigrants, appear to display the most disillusionment with the seemingly inescapable economic hardship of their people. To succeed economically means the forced conformation to non-Chicano ways at the loss of their own culture, and even then they are not guaranteed success. Although they do not represent the entirety of the immigrant population, it is safe to say that their discontent with …show more content…
According to her, the school has a reputation for gang violence, and indeed, the majority of students appeared to embrace the “hooligan” persona or the Cholo subculture. She would frequently observe truants jump over the fence to escape school during the day. Jaylane, on the other hand, was a member of her school’s Magnet program, where dedicated students could apply to access accelerated or Advanced Placement classes. Roughly twenty-five to thirty percent of the student population enrolled in the Magnet program; seventy to eighty percent of those move on to some form of post-secondary education after graduation while the remainder immediately enter the workforce. Jaylane graduated at the top of her class and came here to attend UCSD, but she cannot say the same for many of her peers; she estimates that of the students who did not enroll in the Magnet program, half of them failed to graduate. When I asked her why she thought that so many students decided to their education, she
Chicanos, the second or third generation descended from the original Latino immigrants, appear to display the most disillusionment with the seemingly inescapable economic hardship of their people. To succeed economically means the forced conformation to non-Chicano ways at the loss of their own culture, and even then they are not guaranteed success. Although they do not represent the entirety of the immigrant population, it is safe to say that their discontent with …show more content…
According to her, the school has a reputation for gang violence, and indeed, the majority of students appeared to embrace the “hooligan” persona or the Cholo subculture. She would frequently observe truants jump over the fence to escape school during the day. Jaylane, on the other hand, was a member of her school’s Magnet program, where dedicated students could apply to access accelerated or Advanced Placement classes. Roughly twenty-five to thirty percent of the student population enrolled in the Magnet program; seventy to eighty percent of those move on to some form of post-secondary education after graduation while the remainder immediately enter the workforce. Jaylane graduated at the top of her class and came here to attend UCSD, but she cannot say the same for many of her peers; she estimates that of the students who did not enroll in the Magnet program, half of them failed to graduate. When I asked her why she thought that so many students decided to their education, she