Mexican American Native Influences

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As mentioned almost everyone in the team speaks Spanish as their native language. There would be some kind of native influence at the work floor but professionally not the complete influence. At the personal level they are same culturally but it will be pretty different professionally. Even though they share the same native and may have same culture but the overall views on educational background, political beliefs and other things will significantly influenced by the area they grew up and the personal platform they are sharing with. After doing some internet research, I came summarize it in the following way. Cubans American are more to the right politically, Mexicans American are all over the place, and both're half native so it makes

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