need to be taken into account that will change for the typical Latino elder living in the central valley. Since much of the Latino community in the central valley works in agriculture‚ income is low and adherence to medication becomes difficult. Economic factors directly affect their health. The family who is associated with the diabetes patient will suffer as well. Dietary and lifestyle changes can help prevent long term medical conditions and help an elder Latino take control of their life by controlling
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Latino / Hispanic / Chicano Education In my research I discovered an abundant amount of information on educating Chicano’s or Latino’s in the United States‚ particulary California being that an extremely high population concentrations are in California. In this paper I will list some of the most important cultural diversity facts I’ve found regarding educational barriers‚ communication behaviors‚ cultural differences‚ teaching implications‚ learning styles and tools and insights. First‚ what
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“The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised…”(Marcos Rubio). In the American Education System‚ Hispanics students do not receive the same opportunities as American students. Hispanic students who come from a different country lack speaking the English language causing less understanding when it comes to speaking or listening. Hispanic students who go to school in the U.S‚ have a school dropout rate that is increasing due to the lack of understanding
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ID: 204563815 Professor Duquette-Rury Sociology 51: Sociology of Migration 18 February 2017 The Hispanic Challenge In “The Hispanic Challenge‚” chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and cofounder of Foreign Policy‚ Samuel P. Huntington focuses not on the economic costs and benefits of Hispanic immigration but on the effects it has on the characteristics that define the United States. He argues that the “most immediate and serious challenge to America’s traditional
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The American Dream‚ by definition‚ is the traditional social ideals of the United States‚ such as equality‚ democracy‚ and material prosperity. To an individual‚ this means that they are born equal to everyone around them; that they have the same opportunity as the person next to them to work hard in order to achieve their goals. Basically‚ the American Dream leads people to pursue success in life. This success could be measured in any way the individual wants. However‚ what most people measure success
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Global interactions can be either money or culture. We can observe that American culture have huge influence on Europe. “America’s political and military influence might decline – but its culture remains a global point of reference. Hollywood came before the US Army set foot on foreign shores‚ and it will remain long after military bases have been relocated.” (The European magazine‚ 2011) . America has a power‚ the ability to get people to want what it does. America first began to export some of
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Alcohol Abuse among Hispanics Hispanics are the largest and most rapidly growing ethnic group in the United States‚ making up about 17 percent of the population‚ or more than 50 million people. Research shows that drinking patterns among Hispanics are different from those of non-Hispanic Whites and other ethnic or racial groups (National Institute of Alcohol and Alcoholism‚ 2015). Hispanics’ drinking problem is associated with low socioecomic status such as poverty and low education‚ acculturation
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Although Hispanics and Latinos do not necessarily share a common cultural identity the United States is often times guilty of assuming that everyone that identifies as Hispanic or Latino falls under the same identity. Hispanics and Latinos who are forced to identify with a panethic name on things such as doctors forms and surveys. A few social forces that influence such generic labeling are national origin‚ political views‚ religion and language. While most people are obligated to identify under
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A1. The causes of the American Revolution were imposed taxes‚ taxation without representation‚ and the King implementing the Intolerable act. After the French and Indian War the British government lost a lot of money. So their way of collecting money was to impose taxes on the American colonists. These taxes included a tea tax‚ which was a tax on tea that was imported to America. With no representation in Britain the American colonist did not have a say in these taxes on goods‚ which had always been
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Great American Political Thinkers In the year of 1776‚ the United States became an independent country. At that moment‚ the great men who fought for its independence began to create the government and shape American politics. In Richard Hofstadter’s The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It‚ he identifies twelve of the most influential men and the political traditions they created‚ including the Founding Fathers who started it all. Additionally‚ Hofstadter informs the reader of other
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