United States communities with Hispanic majority populations

Mylinh Phan Burwen Smith ERWC Hispanics are all illegal aliens. Asians are good at math and can’t drive. Blacks are the best at sports and commit the most crimes. Native Americans all love to gamble. All Indians own liquor stores. Media is the main method of mass communication considered combined. There are many forms of media including movies and films to speeches and the news. Racism is the belief that members of each race own features or abilities particular to that race. It has been…

viewed as violent, foreign, criminal-minded, disloyal, and overrunning the border (Bender, 2003; Escobar, 2008; Gabbidon & Greene, 2005; Hernandez, 2009). Overzealous nationalists use this type of rhetoric to justify violence against marginalized populations, including the undocumented (Goody, 2009). Anti-immigrant vigilantism aims to dictate immigration decisions and dominate marginalized people, following methods designed to criminalize and control nonwhite, poor individuals (Escobar, 2008).…

The Latino community has been generalized to seem as though access to proper mental healthcare has been a fault on their part, yet others argue that their approach to mental health may not be the only reason or a valid reason at all. Research has demonstrated that other factors have heavily contributed to the plight of a Latino’s mental well-being, instead. These factors vary across a spectrum for each Latino, such as whether or not they uphold cultural ideals; their background; their status;…

is important to have some background knowledge immigration Hispanics were among the first to migrate to the United States, and decades later they are still among the most recent immigrants. There are multiple reasons as to why this has come to be. Opposing popular belief, the land connection and proximity to Latin America is only a minor factor in the large portion of Hispanic immigrants in the United States. The great majority of Hispanics never attempt migrating to America. Only a minute…

The “old” immigration was before 1890 and the immigrants were mostly from northern and western Europe. Immigrants were mostly men and they all came in hope to find a better way of life. The majority of all of these Immigrants from Europe entered through Ellis Island. In the mid 1800s, chinas population reached about 430 million and there wasn’t enough jobs for everyone. They decided to migrate to the US into the western cities where they often worked as laborers, servants, or skilled traders…

this community needs assessment paper is gang activity among the youth in Robeson County, North Carolina. Gang activity amongst the youth population in Robeson County was chosen because a lot of gang violence and crime that involves mainly teenagers has been observed in the area. Gang activity is affecting the community as a whole negatively. Over the past couple of years, gang activities amongst young teenagers have become worse. This gang activity has caused many problems within the community…

Community 85007 Description The community description can tell the CHN about the internal functions of the population. For example; gaining knowledge of, age, gender, ethnic groups, educational level, income, prominent illness/disease, life expectancy, health care access, and if the population have health insurance or are without coverage all shape and determine community need and compliance to health promotion. The statistics about community aid the CHN in development and delivery of specific…

Equity audits provide information on the characteristics of students, school personnel, and other resources the communities have at the school level to provide information that may inform questions of equity. Consequently, the information helps us develop potential solutions that benefits students and the community. Equity audits are an emerging inquiry method that appears to be gaining momentum in the educational policy arena (Skrla, McKenzie, & Scheurich, 2009). Equity ensures students have…

919 black inmates per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared to 1,717 Hispanic males per 100,000 and only 717 white males per 100,000. Prisons also spend somewhere roughly around $34,000 on each inmate a year, not including special medical bills, or death by lethal injection. The estimate cost for all of the inmates in 2005 was close to $1,830,582,402. That is 773 imprisoned per 100,000 population. That is 0.773 percent of the population. 1 in 129 people incarcerated. I…

In a culturally diverse country like the United States, healthcare professionals such as nurses will work with people of different cultural backgrounds who have different view of health and illness. Mcgoldrick, Giordano & (2006) concluded that a sense of well-being in terms of physical and mental health within a societal context is strongly affected by cultural identity. Understanding the ethno-cultural attitudes of an individual or community shared values, behaviors and beliefs makes us…