Mexican American

drew an imaginary line dividing the country in two. In the north slavery was not allowed and in the south slavery was allowed. The particular issue at hand with the Compromise of 1850 is the divisions over slavery in territories gained in the Mexican American War. After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848 it brought an additional 525,000 square miles into the United States territory…

American Culture encompasses religion, food, and what we wear, and how we wear it.It also encompasses language, marriage,music. The United States is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. By the the cultures of Native Americans, Latin Americans, Africans and Asians. The United States sometimes described as a “Melting Pot “ in which different cultures have contributed their own distinct “ flavor” to American cultures and from around the world. Children of immigrants are…

For example, Mexicans came to the US for money and be able to provide themselves or family back in this country. I can assume that the person is more than willing glad to take any job that earns a good or great wage and is enough. Even though they may not like it entirely, they are doing it because they have no other choice. On the contrary, Americans are not as appreciative to have a job like Mexicans. We cannot necessarily for someone to do something they…

being an immigrant. Society doesn’t see immigrants as asset to the United States when in fact they contribute just as much as any other American. Because immigrants and the Mexican border are seen as “bad” political policies are set in motion that oppress…

essential way is the color of my skin, my ethnicity, and my heritage. Women with privilege who want a temporary bronzed summer glow covet my skin, yet for me, it is the first thing that everyone sees and what people use to stereotype me. As a Mexican-American woman in Southeast Texas, I often face different types of prejudice, stereotypes, and racism. As a young girl, it was rather difficult to feel comfortable with who I was, even though my ethnicity was something I could not control. The…

In the 1920s, due to a lack of job opportunities in the agricultural and industrial sectors Mexican immigrants in the United States were encouraged to return to Latin America through the deterioration of their social and economic standing in American society. Mexican Americans went through repatriation in large numbers during the early 1930s because of the quickly rising unemployment rates caused by the Great Depression throughout the United States. These unemployment rates led to even fewer…

Houston. This is in no way bashing the city in any way but particularly just throwing my two cents to grow up as a gay Mexican American and discovering the gay community. The smell of liquor and stench of sweaty people around you isn’t the combination that is flattering. I didn’t grow up with the same freedom most of this people did and is was quite clear. I grew up in a Mexican family with the belief of my mom weighing down on us like an iron fist. It wasn’t that she was evil but she tried to…

To know a Mexican you must know the past you must know their ancestors and what they have been through. Mexico has been not through one conquest, but two conquests. Mexico was made of many different indigenous groups before the 1st conquest. More than ninety two percent of the population in Mexico was killed. The eight percent that remained either became a slave or fled north of Mexico to what now is Texas, California and New Mexico. The second conquest consisted in land being taken over by the…

I am a Mexican American my family is from Mexico, however i was born in the United States. This is why I am Mexican American but I consider myself more as a Latina. I love both countries equally but I identify myself more Mexican than American. Well i look more Mexican than American. People in society veiw me more as a Mexican girl that was just born in the United States.…

with how the boy grew up, not his race. However, Racial Bias Among Jurors at Heart of Supreme Court Case talks about an assumption that Mr. Pena Rodriguez was guilty of sexual assault just because of his race. “I think he did it because he’s Mexican, and Mexican men take whatever they want.” One of the Jurors is making an immediate opinion that the defendant is guilty based on a stereotype about his race, It is different than Twelve Angry men because it has much less character that, and talks…