In a non legit study identical resumes were sent to employers with exactly the same information but different names, and the white resumes always garnered more attention. (Levitt, 2007) The data from California revealed that people with black names normally have a worse life than a person with a white name, but only because they are usually born into very different households. Those with black names typically come from poor, uneducated,house holds, and this is why they tend to stay in the cycle as they grow up themselves. The next section of the chapter asks where names come from. The California data answers these questions well. When sorting baby names by economic status, there is a difference between middle-income, low-income, and high-income parents. The same being true of educated and uneducated parents. Typically, names that are spelled incorrectly also signify a low-education parent. More naming data also reveals a turnover of naming popularity. Within twenty years, nearly every name on the top name lists provided changes. The data also reveals a pattern, names catch on among high-income, highly educated parents first, and then start working their way down the socioeconomic ladder. Levitt hypothesized that parents, whether they realize it or not, like the sound of names that sound “successful.”(Levitt, 2007) He…
Dinuba was home to Manuel Munoz, born in 1972. Set just outside of Fresco, California, Dinuba was where Munoz learned his culture, languages, and was given his name. Learning both Spanish and English was common in Munoz bilingual generation. Although, living past your given Spanish name was not something Munoz had yet considered. Munoz states that when you are of Spanish decent, you are more than likely labeled a “Mexican.” Lower socio economic background, diminished standard of life, all sayings that are sometimes used to describe men and women of Spanish decent. For years now, America has been the place where you can make a better life for yourself, but for some…
A Korean patient was picking up the prescription in the pharmacy I work at. This was a new medication for him with a very complicated dosing regimen. When a new medication is being picked up, the computer prompts the technician at the pick up station to ask the patient if the patient has any questions about the new medication. The patient was asked that question, but because of the language barrier did not really understand the question and the technician took the answer to that question as a “no”.…
were a mix of ethnicities. AfricanAmerican, Indian, and perhaps mixes of both. Indentured servants had…
After I read, “My Name,” I think it has a great meaning about the differences between the culture in the United States and other countries, or the differences between English and other languages, in this case, it is Spanish and English. Before I read this article, I figured Mexican and American cultures were the same. I believed so because of the way Mexican’s communicate, which look like Americans. Mexican’s and American’s seem easy…
Throughout most of the history almost all locations the race, which has been the majority, is the “white race” which comprises both Hispanic Americans which has the highest proportion of the population in the Middle Western side of the country, which is 85% and the non- Hispanic that makes up 79 percent of our population. A “White” person usually refers to individuals who are light colored and or light pigmentation of the skin, however defining a very straightforward denotation of ethnicity and race. It is very important to understand the origin of individuals before saying they are “white”.…
Lambert, Wallace E. & Taylor, Donald M. (2010). Language in the Lives of Ethnic Minorities: Cuban-American Families in Miami. Oxford Journals, volume 17(issue 4), pages 477-500.…
Gloria Anzaldua is a Mexican woman who faced troubles growing up because she spoke Chicano and had trouble learning English bdue to her native tongue. She faced quandaries as a child because she had trouble grasping English and spoke with a Hispanic accent. She explains that “At Pan American University, I and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents.…
Living as a Hispanic individual during the 1950’s and 1960’s proved to be difficult. This struggle was widely seen in the rural Hispanics schools. Many students in schools of east LA lived this while many not knowing it.…
California has more ethnic history than one would think or would have even known. Racial Fault Lines: The historical origins of white supremacy in California brings forth the ethnic conflicts that took place in California. Tomas Almaguer former dean of the College of Ethnics Studies at San Francisco State University explains the struggles that took place through the different racial experiences of four “non-white” groups; Mexicans, Indians, Chinese, and Japanese. The way the “white” treated the power minorities resulted into America’s racial hierarchy we find in today.…
The four Hispanic groups I am going to be writing about are Mexican American, Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, and El Salvadorians. The interesting part of these four groups is that they speak the Spanish language. When speaking Spanish, each of these four groups, have a different dialect; however, the spelling is the same, they are pronounced the same, the words have different meanings. In this paper, the following will be discussed: linguistic, political, social, economic, religious, and familial conventions of the four Hispanic groups that are living in the United States.…
Japanese and Mexican immigrants began arriving in California at about the same time and initially worked in very similar occupations as agricultural laborers. Yet a study of a school district in which their children attended the same schools and sat side-by-side in the same classrooms found IQ differences as great as those between blacks and whites attending schools on opposite sides of town in the Jim Crow South.…
Cited: Gutiérrez, David. The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States since 1960. New York: Columbia UP, 2004. Print.…
National Council of La Raza. (2010). Hate Flashpoints. Retrieved August 30, 2010, from We Can Stop The Hate: www.wecanstopthehate.org…
Discrimination in the past came in many forms but it started with systemic discrimination. In the early 1900s the Anglo-Saxon ideology was at a high. In the segregation of Mexican student’s article, the author shows how these ideologies affected Mexican American in California. Even though Californian had equality law for Mexican Americans, they were still discriminated against. “Mexicans were only…