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The Latino Paradox

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For immigrants, becoming American isn’t easy, but their health is far better than born U.S Citizens. Latino immigrants (mostly men) would travel to and from their country of origin to work in the U.S (Kennett Square) leaving their families behind, to access a green card where they can be able to get their family to come to the U.S to live, this process takes up to nine years. Kennett Square had good schools, resources, and social services to invest in their future, they were a “bridging community”, meaning everyone benefits if no one is left behind. This was a way for the community to come together have talks, and find out about the available resources there were and to also exchange services. The community had an after school program for teens “The Garage”, they studied, did homework, hung out, worked …show more content…

Steve Larson a doctor of the county, seized all generalizations there were of Latino’s, generalizations such as; they’re always late for appointments, dirty, and had infectious diseases. He actually determined that they had the lowest death rate, heart disease, and other major killers. Latino’s are non-affluent people with better health than the most affluent people, which was a question to America, thence the “Latino Paradox” was established in 1960. The Paradox shows that the U.S has very high levels of depression, and new Immigrants has very low levels of depression. The theory of the Latino Paradox was Mexican families stick together under hard circumstances, conditions and helped each other solve their problems (reason being they have such good health). Although hope was often lost by the children of the hardest working immigrants, they began to forget why they came to the U.S. Lost hope in the children are caused because their parents had longer hours at work which meant less time to be around the children. They did this to make ends meet, after all, they are the poorest

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