Spanish in the United States

Race has always been an issue for the United States of America, from the Natives, to the Africans, and now Latinos. Yet if you look around the United States there is way more than these races here, however these races have been singled out. Envision the Caucasian majority race switched as one of the races The United States has had a bad history with becoming the majority. Considering it is more minorities in The United States than Caucasian’s this could have been a possibility a long time ago.…

We all have our voice, and we have learned to utilize it since the day we were born, but in the past, certain ethnic groups voice was silenced due to the color of their skin. I try to imagine a world where I was told, because of the color of my skin, I could not go to college or have my own beliefs because they are wrong. The discouraging truth of this is that our past is plagued with this, and even today some people are still forced to face this treatment. In this module, we viewed the…

disagreed with it. The United States should have remained isolationist because it had internal issues to fix and imperializing contradicted democratic values. The first reason that America should not have sought to gain control of colonies is that it had its own problems to worry about. For example, at the time, African-Americans were struggling for equality without much success. Likewise, women were not given the same rights, such as the ability to vote, as men. The United States should…

Columbus is often labeled as the person who “discovered” America, but now we know that’s just incorrect. The native american’s already lived there, and the Vikings, with explorers such as Lief Ericson, landed in the Americas long before the Spanish. Columbus did set forth the “age of discovery”, but when you think about it, that's not really much of an achievement on Columbus’ part. People often idolize Columbus and talk about him as if he was the only person who could have landed in America…

Miracle Since colonial times, Spanish South American countries have been at the mercy of foreign interests. Spain dominated the fertile and mineral rich Spanish South American landscape, using it to extract raw materials and ultimately profit largely at the cost of land deterioration and slave work. Culture, language, and more importantly, socio-economic strategies used in South America by Europeans or North Americans have played a crucial role in the course of many Spanish South American…

Louisiana Creole cuisine originated in Louisiana. This type of Creole cooking uses influences from the general cuisine of the Southern United States and from populations present in Louisiana before the sale of Louisiana to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Louisiana Creole blends primarily French and Spanish cookings styles as well as West African, Amerindian, Hatian, German, Italian and Irish influences. In this cuisine, and from French influence, there is a large emphasis on…

about the Hispanic/Latino culture. This is an example of one of many Hispanic contributions/influences in many areas of interests such as music, science, writing/language, and cultural values. The Hispanic culture, due to previous conquests by the Spanish Empire has…

Anglo Settlers to Texas and considered one of the greatest heroes of the Texas Revolution. It is difficult to envision a historical textbook without folkloric passages about the deeds of Stephen F. Austin and how he shaped the history of Texas from a Spanish Colony to American Statehood. While Sam Houston proclaimed that “The Father of Texas is no more!” upon the news of Stephen F. Austin’s death; general sentiment of the republic did not champion this rally cry. The following paper will review…

world through assimilation while escaping the private world that minorities live in. Richard Rodriguez was born into a similar world that exists today amongst the Mexican community where darker skin is seen as unattractive and a danger in the United States. His assimilation process is heavily based on the pursuit of education, on the power of language, and the role…

being another Latin America country but with the large influx of immigrants and with a large demographic of Jews and Italians, Argentinian culture is different from the rest of its sister countries. The indigenous people were able to fight off the Spanish invaders and even the Incan empire that surrounded them. Even after being taken over by Spain, the native people were still able to fight off British forces without help from its mother country (Argentina- History & Culture). Tradition is…