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Mexican America’s , Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Central and South American’s are the groups I have chosen to write on. It took some time to study these groups as I am one of the typical American’s who seems to link the groups together. I do not mean to be that way, I simply haven’t done a whole lot of research on the matter. What I have discovered is that they are all very similar, but have somewhat different priorities and traditions. It also appears that economic status is a dividing factor. The most common language spoken by Mexican American’s is both English and Spanish. Some call it “Spanglish” there is even a movie with that label, I have a friend who speaks Spanish and when she saw me trying to learn it, she explained that Spanish …show more content…

Most Puerto Ricans descend from a combination of Europeans and Africans. Puerto Rico is a Commmon wealth or unincorporated territory of the United States. The residents of the Island have been United States Citizens since 1917. New York City tends to be the largest home for the Puerto Rican community, however they do reside in all fifty states. When they moved to the United States, they were originally farm workers. The Puerto Ricans are considered poverty level, and have a high level of high school dropouts. They lean towards the Democratic political side and had their first government representative Oscar Garcia Rivera in 1937. Much like Mexican American’s, they embrace the Catholic religion. They consider themselves to be American’s, but are still very proud of their island and their …show more content…

I see that most of them are Catholics. I think they all have the same objective, and that is to come to the United States where they can have freedom of speech, work to make more money to get out of poverty, and to get an education. According to our textbook, it took some time before the United States has excepted Spanish into our schools, it has just happened in the last twenty or thirty years. The fact that they were separated into their own school and punished for speaking Spanish when they did integrate into the public school system is about as bad as separating the African American’s from the Whites. They have had to bond together, and all groups are very family oriented. They live together, pull their money together, and raise their families together even in small homes. They all have similar talents of cooking, music and dancing and have brought their traditions to the United States and we are finally embracing them. The evidence is seen on television, the radios, and even in the nightclubs with Latin

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