White Hispanic and Latino Americans

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…

While other ethnicities such as Puerto Ricans and African Americans struggled for their rights during this time, in the Southwest, Chicano civil rights were the most prominently fought for. They were so fought for, in fact, that Hispanics inspired by the motivating speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. began to form organizations to contest the everlasting discrimination they faced and continue to face…

The Spanish have influenced the society of the United States of America in a number of ways and are most certainly one of the most impactful groups to many aspects of the society that has now been established. This influence stems back to centuries ago when the Spaniards were at the peak of their empire. Their strongest years would be from 1500 to 1720, when the Spaniards were in the midst of their conquistador era and dominated many territories (Macleod 374). People of Spanish descent make up…

Avoid accepting stereotypes. For example, some Hispanic/Latino Americans might not even speak Spanish. So, get to know your clients and assess them to best you can. Avoid being ethnocentric. No one culture is superior to another. So, don?t judge your clients as such. Avoid expecting the typical Hispanic/Latino client. This group is multiethnic. So, you will meet Latinos of multiple racial backgrounds. Be open by the diversity of the Hispanic/Latino community. Avoid focusing solely on…

development. In regards to Cuban and/or Hispanic culture, a Press Release published by the National Sleep Foundation has noted several sleeping habits for multiple racial and/or ethnic groups. For example, “Hispanics are the most likely to say they are kept awake by financial, employment, personal relationship and/or health-related concerns (National Sleep Foundation, 2010).” Another example of a sleeping habit said to be performed by Hispanic Americans is that, “…Hispanics (22%) are the most…

Today, there are many Latino leaders throughout the United States, but the Latino community is still underachieved. The reason is because the Latino community needs more leadership to be developed. By this, I don’t mean that we need well-spoken and charismatic people to begin giving speeches about improving the community, but that we need the average person to contribute to the Latino community. We need people to arrange more workshops about the Hispanic community. Within the workshops, people…

Article 2 Middle-class Latinos "step it up a notch" as communities thrive Summary : In the mid-1980s, the town of Downey, California didn’t have much of a diverse community. Immigration was not as popular there and with Latinos, only a few families were stationed there. Over the last two decades, the town of Downey and even other small cities near Los Angeles has been transformed to what many Latino families call home. Generations of Latino immigrants have filled the lands of Downey over the…

The central theme of this book is that you can’t understand the huge Latino presence in the United States if you do not understand the US role in Latin America, the Latino presence in the country is, in fact, a product of the harvest of empire. This presence is the result of over a century of domination. Most of the immigrants came from countries that were more dominated by the United States. Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Salvador and Guatemala are the countries from which…

What it means to be a Gonzalez My grandfather and my grandmother’s on my father's side was born and raised in the small town of Jayuya, Puerto Rico. My grandmother’s family were but simple farmers within the very heart of Puerto Rico but they're more than that ,see, The men and women were notorious within Jayuya. Day in day out all they did was constant work, they were the largest farming family out there. They absolutely grinded to get where they are even to this day, they were loyal to their…

To what extent are Latino ethnic enclaves in Los Angeles beneficial or harmful to immigrant assimilation rates? Latinos are the largest minority group in the United States and population numbers have been increasing for almost a century. After the Immigration and Control Act of 1986 signed by President Ronald Reagan, the Latino population has been booming, especially in cities with an existing high population of Latinos like Miami, New York and Los Angeles. What many considered “amnesty”…