Latin American Discrimination

Does it matter what we are called: Latino or Hispanic? Does it change who we are as people? To an extent, most people do not know the difference between either. Typically, people group both terms as one singular item. However, Hispanic and Latino racial classifications are more than a broad category for people from Spanish-speaking countries. The words connote and represent a history of colonial terminology that based its success on the failures of innocent, historically peaceful, cultural groups. Hispanic and Latino terminology are political and economic in every sense. This paper will show that colonial leanings to control and govern people’s lives have yet to culminate, even though the era of imperialism ended a century ago. The United States, although far from its heyday as the singular house of power, still manages to achieve control and influence over the imperialized minds of groups of people, specifically Hispanics and Latinos.

There are many stereotypes and racist remarks in today’s world. This essay will specifically be describing the discrimination towards teenage Hispanics. Many Hispanics are discriminated in today’s society. Discrimination and racism can emotionally scar a person. Many Hispanic teens dropout out of high school due to discrimination. Other Hispanic teens gain depression due to discrimination. Several other Hispanic teens even share their own personal stories about themselves being discriminated. Discrimination is an atrocity and this essay will be more of an informative essay to explain the barbarity of racial discrimination, specifically towards teenage Hispanics. I have a personal experience towards this topic so I will be sharing my own personal story towards this issue. Discrimination has become a grave dilemma and there has to be a solution to end this reoccurring situation. Many people see the crimes of racial discrimination occurring right in front of their faces, but they do nothing. Those people who just watch and ignore this grave problem are supporters for this issue because instead of putting an end to racial discrimination, those people just let it occur as if it is normal. I always question myself the same questions repeatedly; who has the right to look down upon a different race? What makes one race superior to another? Why is racism an issue? These are the most interesting questions to me, which makes a person think of today’s

According Almanza, a Latino man working in the helping profession chosen to be interviewed, believes that family and church are the two places that man Latinos turn to when seeking to find assistance or help that might be facing

Deaf Latinxs communities in the U.S endure negative judgments, low lack of empathy and understanding in many cases. In addition, deaf Latinxs experience institutional discrimination among peers, friends, coworkers and even loved ones. The Latinx-deaf community are more likely to experience stigma and discrimination due to cultural barriers, customs and overall differences. Additonally, the Latinx community in the U.S, especially those who are undocumented are part of oppressed and marginalized groups, thus stigmatization and instances of discrimination are higher. According to Social Work with Latinos: A Cultural Assets Paradigm, a book by Melvin Delgado, Latinxs tend to associate their stressors with three aspects which include overall discrimination, their legal status in the U.S, and of course language barriers that prevent them from communicating with the outside world.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. By the 1970s, the south became the nations most integrated region. In 1976, 45.1% of the souths African American students were going to majority all white schools, compared to 27.5% in the Northeast and 29.7% in the Midwest. School integration have increased since the 1980s. Several court cases helped enforce the Civil Right Act.

Immigrant discrimination is simply put the discrimination by natives against immigrants from other countries. In this article I am also going to go into some depth on discrimination on transplants from other areas (people who have relocated to another area of the country.) Immigrant discrimination is a major issue in the United States. There is a reason the United States is considered the melting pot of the world. There are people from all walks of life in our country. There are approximately forty six million immigrants in the United States.

Moreover, the excepted institutional racism devastatingly affects Latin Americans. Even throughout the past century, racial profiling ruthlessly affected Latin American:

Discrimination in simple terms is the act of favoring a particular side or persons based on either skin color, race, capabilities, gender or sometimes even the age. It may also be described as a form of being unjust or treating people unequally as a means of eliminating them so as not to gain favors. Discrimination makes people not to be recognized, or even they are addressed in a manner that is not quite appealing. On the other hand, Latino comprises of those individuals who are found in the American Latin countries, and they have their cultural practices. The Latinos are commonly mistaken to the Hispanics even if the two cultures seem to be similar. In contrast, Hispanics are those people who either come from the country Spain or tend to speak the language Spanish. The Brazilians are also included in this category and as pin pointed out there is a difference between the Latinos and the Hispanics. There has been extensive discrimination of the Latinos mostly as they make their way to the United States of America.

The movie Stand and Deliver, released in 1988 tells a true story of Garfield High School in East Los Angeles about a South American teacher, Mr. Escalante, who strives to make a difference in the lives of a group of young Chicanos. The students faced many struggles such as discrimination, home struggles, poverty, and gang violence. The

When I was little I used to collect piggy banks. I remember the first one I owned which was pink and made out of plastic. People would ask me what I was saving for and I said college. Since I was 6 I was dreaming of attending the University of Southern California.

Despite popular belief that the category of whiteness grants many advantages, that was not the case with Mexican-Americans. There were several Mexican-Americans that had whiteness features, and passed as being white, but the Anglo’s were not fond of Mexican-Americans being labeled as white. This led to forms of racial supremacy through legal exclusions, George A. Martinez in Mexican-Americans and Whiteness writes that “Mexican-Americans were earmarked for exclusive employment in the lowest brackets of employment and paid less than Anglo-Americans for the same jobs.” (Martinez 33). Mexican-Americans were treated unequally just because they were Mexican-Americans and not real Americans, these forms of racial supremacy continued, and as a result they were excluded from receiving their full and equal rights.

Latin culture is a growing number in the U.S.A. from the past to our modern era. Most of the U.S.A. is inhabited by Latino families, such as, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Costa Ricans, and Mexicans. Over seventeen percent of people living in the United States are Hispanic and Latin based families. These families are found in all states, but mainly reside in Florida, Texas, Arizona, or even New Mexico. However, there is a slight problem in our modern day life and it is discrimination of Hispanics and Latino Americans.

Imperialism and then colonialism opened the floodgates that are troubled race relations, racism, and misguided societal values. Race has played a vital role in how Americans view each other, and themselves, and the experiences that they have. We constantly hear about institutionalized racism, the school-to-prison pipeline and police brutality on the news. The topic of race has such an enormous presence in our society that it simply cannot be ignored. But what is rarely talked about is how these conditions are incredibly similar to those that people in Latin America have to endure as well. Racism does not end at the borders of the United States, and in fact, they only seem to get worse in countries that are less developed.

Conversely, some participants explained that they have experienced discrimination even in a predominantly Latina/o community. With regard to this finding, perceived discrimination in a predominantly Latina/o community, there may be two possible explanations. First, intergroup contact theory argues that prejudice is reduced when there are positive relations between groups. However it is possible that the intergroup contacts in a homogenous community are not positive interactions that promote decreased prejudice. Second, some of the participants in this study explained that they have perceived discrimination from other Latina/os, This finding consistent with previous research that has noted the existence of within-group discrimination in the

I want to begin this essay about the racial discrimination that is lived in Ecuador. Discriminating, strictly speaking. It means selecting something at the same time as excluding something else. It's like saying "this is better than the other".