Minority Subcultures

It has become obvious that the face of the American is quickly changing along with the increasing variety of the American minorities. Barely out of the days of slavery and segregation, we witness people from different cultures as they attempt to come together in this free nation. Faced with cultural differences, the paths of American minorities often result in a collision that is mixed with diversity that local governments and institutions struggle to manage that range from housing, education, customs, and language barriers.
Unarguably, the current census data leaves no doubt that the minorities are increasing as a proportion of the total United States population. This is the result of years of immigration, an increase in interracial relationships and marriages, and the higher birthrates by minorities as comparted to Caucasian in the United States. With the “new cultural …show more content…
Much of the discrimination that is seen targets these subcultures and not necessarily the individual. By subculture, I am referring to a group’s form of living such as leisure verses work habits and education. It is obvious that subcultural difference exists among all groups and that this does influence how someone may be viewed or treated and this will likely generate differences in economic performance among minority groups.
Milardo (1988) notes that the relationships we maintain with other individuals, whether close and longstanding or ordinary and brief, are among the most important features of life. With these relationships, it is social networks and social supports that are the two major components. Social support is commonly used to refer to “quality” or functional contents of the relationship while social networks can be defined as the existence or “quantity” of relationships (Cohen and Wills,