Summary Of The Voice Of Latino Immigrants

On the other hand, the video of “The voice of Latino Immigrants” challenges the common assumption about the attitude of the Latino on integrating into the American culture. The video tries talks about how hard the Latino is trying to eliminate the label of “invasion” and address the communication issue through learning the American culture and receiving the education. Not only the children prepares for the education of the English, the adult or even the housewife are also learning to speak the English and preparing to integrate into the American culture. They participate into different courses such as adult education classes, including English language learning, computer training as well as financial literacy. They are a group of Latino immigrants who spends time and effort to engage in their communities and pass the knowledge to their generations. In order to achieve "the American dream" and gain the American national identity, they obey all the fundamental beliefs of the cultural cornerstones, including learning English and finding job. As we notice that, the depictions of immigrants in the mass media fail to reflect truth of their attitude
and behaviors.

In the video, a housewife who is working with two jobs claims that she clearly understands the importance of integrating into the American culture which can helps her to find jobs and contribute to the society.
Even though we cannot say the Latino immigrants in the videos are very well-education, at least, they did not engage into any crime or simply receive the welfare from the government without getting a job. Yet, an unfairly unfavorable light is always lightening behind each of their hard-work and dream. The video demonstrates the fact that many of the Latino immigrants is willing to accept the new culture and contribute to the United States, they are not a group of “illegal aliens” who simply passes over the border to exploit the education or health welfare of the American. They show respect to the core
culture.

2. The “Cultural Imperialism” means to use the cultural advantages to expand and occupy the world cultural market. Through using the advanced science, technology and the national education, the culture of an developed country can maintain its world leader position, vigorously develop the world cultural market and the attempt to transform or impose its cultural or other values to the others country, includes the output of science and technology content, ownership, production values as well as professional ideology is the Cultural Imperialism. Based on the superiority of the material conditions, the Western countries able to use their economic and political power to promote and popularize different kinds of their value culture, behavior patterns, systems and identity

in order to achieve the goal of remodeling the oppressed people of their values, behaviors, systems and identities. In fact, it has two important purposes, one is in political, and the other one based on economic. From the economic view, the Cultural Imperialism tries to obtain a market for its cultural goods; and from the political view, it transforms the public awareness in order to establish a political hegemony. As a result, the oppressed one will obey the imperialist class and help them to maximize their interest. In short, cultural imperialism uses the cultural infiltration to indirect control the soul and ideology of the people, and then turns the others country into a cultural colony of the Western developed countries.