Chicano Studies : Mexican American Families

El cambio es algo bueno. That means change is a good thing and I have a proposal that involves change for families. I believe that Mexican families deserve a shot to live in America, even if they are illegal immigrants. The plan involves a way where a United States’ family and a family from Mexico can both benefit from each other. The three ways that a U.S. family and a Mexican family can benefit from each other are: sharing different foods, learning new languages, and learning new life skills. While these exchanges are going, the Mexican family earns free citizenship as well. This is a government funded program. The families will have to pay for their own food and housing, but the housing is supplied by the government for a low price. The housing fee pays for a limited, but reasonable, amount of water and electricity.

Despite their better standing, the research has surprisingly found that they are “only slightly more likely than those whose parents were first-generation immigrants to have had some education beyond high school or to report household or personal incomes above $25,000” (28). These differences in educational and occupational attainment may be attributed to the overcrowded, underfunded inner-city schools second and third generation Latinos attend or to the fact that young Latinos feel economic pressure to drop out of school to get a job and financially assist their families; thus, keeping them in lower occupational ranks since the well-paid professional positions require a higher educational standard. These results are a bit disheartening, but nonetheless, the educational attainment of Latinos is still in a positive trend since we are seeing a slow, yet gradual increase of educational attainment.

Poverty among the Latino community has converted into an endemic predicament in the development of children living in the United States. The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) indicated that poverty is uppermost with children making up 21.6% living below the poverty line in comparison to young adults (19.0%) and elders (18.1%). The California Poverty Measure (CPM) by PPIC analysis concluded that 7.5 millions of Californians lacked resources and made an income of about $30,000 a year. That is just above the poverty line which is to earn $24,000 a year. Although Latinos are constantly operational in the work field, they have a higher scarcity rate than any other ethnic group due to their association with lower education and deficiency of income (PPIC, 2017). In addition, according to The Pew Research Center, many Latino families are experiencing economic hardship as a result of moribund financial wealth, increased mortality rates, and higher birth rates among the Latino immigrant population (Lopez, Velasco, 2011). Poverty has produced several obstacles to Latino children in regards to their shifting family dynamics, learning, and development, but there are wide-ranging solutions that aid children of limited income households to prosper. This essay will scrutinize and discuss the assorted effects of poverty for Latino children living in the United States in the context of family dynamics, education, and development, as well as propose a solution to

throughout all of the United States. We have many different people that migrated here from all types of countries and from all of the continents. The main culture I will be talking about today in my interviews is the Mexican culture. The Latino culture contains many sub cultures including many South American countries and Central America. This will be an in depth interview of Mexican culture, but it is only a small fraction compared to the amount of different cultures we have in our country today.

Dr. Jason Richwine discusses the Latino’s absorption and integration into the American culture. He compares the Latino nation with other countries’ immigrants that has rose out of poverty, while the Hispanics have not been rising up out of the lower class after several generations have passed. Richwine mentions that American prejudice might be influencing the Hispanic immigrants not striving. For example, he states, that “popular explanations from the

When I was in elementary, I was taught that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas, and he was painted as a great explorer. It was not until my sophomore year of high school when I took Chicano Studies from Los Angeles City College, that I realised that the picture I had was not complete. The Chicano Studies class opened my eyes to see how sugar coated the history I learned growing up. Learning how marginalized group’s story is not told, made me want to get involved with those who do not have a voice. I had been involved in our local community clinic at the encouragement of my parents, but it was not until I took the class that I realized how important the work really was. Recently my immigration Health Care committee teamed up with other

The Presentation Topic- “Past and Future of Latinos in USA” was focussed on the socio-economic condition of Latinos over the decades. The main areas of research were education, population growth, politics and job opportunities along the time window. A clear distinction was drawn in these areas of research for better understanding of the impact of lives of Latinos in USA.

In addition, the factor that might play an important role in Latino’s wealthy is English language proficiency, about one in ten South/Central Americans and around one in five native Mexican adults do not speak English very well. Moreover, the differentiation between generations in Latinos plays an important role because second and third generations do better than the first generation or recent immigrants. The reason is language and experience in the labor market as well as educational achievements. The early the exposed to the U.S., the better they fare. “Latino men earn wages are about 60 percent of the wages earned by whites and 90 percent of those earned by African American”. Also, the origin between Latinos is important as researchers show that “Over 55 percent of the Latino labor force is foreign-born with less education and lower earning that natives”. that South/Central Americans and Puerto Ricans do better that Mexicans. In fact, Mexicans represent the 58.5 percent of Hispanics, but they tend to have less education and is the group with the fewer earnings salaries (Fry, R., & Lowell, L.,

Hispanics in the United States have a history rooted for centuries. Many different cultures make up this group dubbed ‘Hispanics’, each with their own identity, culture, and struggles. However, they do group together in a common fight to gain a more stable and positive foot hold in the U.S.

Every 1 in 5 Hispanic American lives below the poverty line and the average income for most households in $10,000 below those in non-ethnic households. Many lack wealth or a type of savings because of the downturn of the economy. Hispanic Americans relied on the fact they owned their homes for income when it came time to care for the elderly,

The Hispanic culture is intricate and understanding the dynamics of behavior, beliefs and practices offers insight for

Chicano history in class has involucrate readings, Video, Assignments and lecture this course had given me the opportunity in expanding my knowledge on Chicano history and how it has been throughout the years. In this final assignment I have to talk about a person that I interviewed and conducted and relate their life to the course, this person would have to be my abuelita, Rita Salazar. I interviewed my abuelita because she is a strong independent woman and lived life as a Chicana in the past and as she was growing up. First I 'm going to give you her life story.

Culture is very important in a person's life, and even if you think that you are not that involved in your culture you are most likely wrong. The reason being that if you are Mexican, Hmong, Indian, African American, or even White, you may come home to a meal and, that meal may represent your culture. It may be tacos, rice, curry, ribs, corn, or who knows you might even come home to a cup of coffee from Star Bucks. My point is, You may not think that you are contributing to your culture, and that is okay but in a way you are contributing to your culture in many ways. Do you think that if no one thought that they contributed to their culture, that their culture would be different in a way?

In Mexico’s society, there’s evidence that the socio-economic class you are born and raised up into will somewhat determine your life chances you tend to have for the remainder of your life. In Mexico’s intriguing and stunning society with all diverse destinations you are able to visit ranging from beaches to hotels and etc. their society is based upon the idea of social stratification which is explained as “arranged in social strata or classes within groups” meaning the population of Mexico is divided into classes, the upper class, middle class, and lower class. People in Mexico are viewed in these classes you have the wealthy which are the upper class such as for example Carlos Slim Helu who is the richest person in Mexico, and you have the middle class whose income is acceptable in providing for themselves and or family they are not viewed as someone who is struggling. Then you have the lower class as those who are view are the poor ones with little to no income.

The distinction of being the fastest-growing racial-ethnic group in the United States has alternated between Asians and Hispanics in recent decades. However, few racial or ethnic groups have had as great an impact on the demography of the United States as Latinos. They represent one of the most dynamic and diverse racial-ethnic groups in the United States. The Latino population has had an impact not only on the demography of the U.S. population, but also on other aspects of U.S. society. This can be seen, for example, in the increasing popularity of Latin American food and music and in the prevalence of Spanish-language signage, advertisements, and media. In addition, the business community has discovered the economic influence of the Latino population. Their great diversity presents challenges in