Hispanic and Latino Americans

What does it mean to be of hispanic descent? Being hispanic descent means that your ancestors are from countries once colonized by Spain for example Mexico. “I will say to you that americans of hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had” said by Marco Rubio. This quotation shows that most hispanic parents want the best for their children. They wanted them to have the life they didn’t get a chance to have. Loads of Mexican/ hispanic parent’s move to the…

Methods Participants Similar to the Martin, Bradford, Drzewiecka & Chitgopekar, (2003) study, data will be collected from a group of 300 or more white college students from the Midwest region of America. Additionally, data will be collected from 300 or more black college students from the southeast region of America. Specifically, students from Luther college and NCA&T university will be assessed by using a questionnaire from Martin, Bradford, Drzewiecka & Chitgopekar, (2003) study that was…

population in New York, NY was roughly 8,175,133. According to the Census Quick Facts Sheet, the racial population consists heavily of three races in 2010: White alone (44.0%), followed by Hispanic or Latino (28.6%), ending in Black or African American (25.5%). The remaining races all fall under 15%: American Indian and Alaska Native (0.7%), Asian (12.7%), Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (0.1%), Two or more races (4.0%). Segregation trends between 1980/1990 and 2010 Exposure…

Mexican Americans make up the largest percentage of the Latino population in the United States. Many of these individuals keep the core values, traditions and beliefs that came from Mexico. These individuals are less likely to assimilate into American culture and are more likely to live in Mexican American communities inside the United States. (Miley et al, 2012, p.236) Of these individuals Roman Catholicism is the dominant religion followed. (Collins et al, 2013, P.58) In fact authors Kyriakos…

being called Hispanic because this term is used to identify Spaniards and not Spanish Speaking counties to the South of the United States. I can relate to this because I personally consider myself a Mexican-American. My parents are from Mexico, and I was born here in the United States. I have both the Mexican and United States nationality, and I feel like it identifies me. It is worth reading because one can get some knowledge. Some people prefer to get called something that is not Hispanic.…

Growing up as a Hispanic woman in America, I constantly switch back and forth with which culture I identify with most. Growing up I fully embraced my American culture, but as I started to get older, I started to identify more with my Hispanic culture. Having to always choose one side, has always left me feeling guilty for not embracing the other culture. Throughout the paper, I am going to use the term Hispanic to describe my Latin origin. Hispanic can be used interchangeably with Latino, but…

What’s An American Dream for Immigrants Undocumented immigrants come from different parts of the world not just Mexico. The ones that are mostly judged for coming to America to find and live the American Dream are the Latinos. We are the one’s that are different and have all these stereotypes about us; but not every Latino is a criminal or rapist. They don’t know the struggle that all undocumented faced everyday and fear that they won’t be deported and separated from their families. We all…

to the) authenticity being questioned. For example, the Latino food in America varies depending on where you are; in California, it could be Chicano or Cuban in Southern Florida.…

Compared to whites, Hispanics are approximately 1.5x more likely to get the disease, and African Americans are about two times more likely (Alzheimer’s Association, 2010). Between the years of 2000 and 2013, deaths associated with Alzheimer’s disease increased by a whopping 71%, and Alzheimer’s disease is now the eighth leading cause of death among Hispanic Americans (CDC, 2015). Within the same time frame, researchers found that the incidence of dementias in African Americans was 26.6 cases of…

This can also be applied to all of us. Such as Italian, Hispanic, Russian, etc. Once we come to a new country, we are like a new student at a school. Personally we bring our culture, then our own selves mix it from the place or country we are in. The only problem is the older past generations, because there are still remains in racisms. The past can’t leave, but we can leave it…