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
This video episode of Unnatural Causes was concerned with how the health of newly arrived Mexican immigrants diminished as a function of them spending an increasing amount of time in America. It was initially pointed out that when they first arrived in this country, their overall health was better than most Americans, but within a generation, their health would deteriorate towards the norm in America due to the influence of inherent social pressures (Unnatural Causes, 2008). A couple of hypothetical reasons were then presented in order to explain why this might happen and then one of these was expounded upon for the majority of the video.
In "Health Assimilation among Hispanic Immigrants in the United States: The Impact of Ignoring Arrival-cohort Effects," Tod G. Hamilton, Tia Palermo, and Tiffany L. Green set out to add a meaningful contribution to the literature tackling the "healthy immigrant effect," a phenomenon where the initial health advantage of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S. diminishes over time. Indeed, this phenomenon (or puzzle) sets the foundation for their study since it is clearly presented by Hamilton et al. right at the beginning of their article: "Upon arrival in the United States, Hispanic immigrants, like many immigrant subgroups, tend to exhibit better health than their native-born counter-parts. This advantage, however, erodes as immigrants' tenure of U.S. residences increases" (Hamilton et al. 2015, 460).
In the eyes of American, the Latino immigrants are challenging the "Core countries" of leadership, culture and solidarity since they always consider as the barbarians who show no willingness to integrate into the American culture by abandoning their own culture or learning. Moreover, they always show no passion to learn the English. With the linguistically distinction, unique political values and cultural difference, the Latino easily shows the contradiction and conflict to the uniqueness of
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
A diverse minority group of Latino and Spanish-speaking peoples has played an important part of what it means to be American and what it means to be a citizen in the United States today. Moving into the future, in order to analyze the trajectory that this group is in, we must first understand the group’s history in the United States and in territories that would become the United States. In addition, we must look at the origins of the most recent wave of Latino immigration in order to understand their current effect on American society and the intersection between both minority and majority groups. Finally, we get to the apex of this investigation: what lies in the future for Latino Americans in the United States? Although Latino
Latinos have a strong culture, as well as a religious culture. Some believe many problems may be fixed with prayer as well as with traditional healers (Alegria et al. 2008a; Berenzon-Gorn 2006; Espin 1987 as cited in Lorenzo-Blanco, & Delva, 2012). They have a lot of faith in religious ceremonies and home remedies before seeking professional help. Latinos seek help with family members before anyone professional (Bermúdez, Kirkpatrick, Hecker, & Torres-Robles, 2010). Latinos most of the time have a big family size, and are always really close. Seeking help with family members, they believe will be more help if the family member has had a similar situation, and they believe their advice can help. Although Latinos don’t always seek professional help, they prefer family therapy (Szapocznik et al. 1989 as cited in Bermúdez, Kirkpatrick, Hecker, & Torres-Robles, 2010). Some prefer to work out their issue together as a family. Overall, when Latinos ask for help, they go to priests, psychiatrists, counselor, and therapists (Bermúdez, Kirkpatrick, Hecker, & Torres-Robles, 2010).
So, through this, it shows that Latinos tend to be on a lower economic status than white Americans. As shown in Making the San Fernando Valley, “On one end of the valley [the west side], gated mansions and old ranch houses still preside over well-groomed neighborhoods; on the other side [the east side], some residents still don’t have sewer hookups or streetlights. On the west side of the Valley, a majority of residents are white, whereas on the east side, just one third are; West Valley residents also earn five thousand dollars more per year…. Educational achievements reflect similar discrepancies.” (Barraclough L. B., 2011). Proven within this quote, white Americans are situated in better communities within the city of San
majority of Latino undocumented workers are presently part of the labor force in the United
Thesis: Although Mexican-Americans are legally considered white, the inequalities and discrimination they face show how they fail to receive the social benefits that come along with this label.
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.,
The most prevalent lessons that my community has taught me is that silence is an enabler. I was born and raised in the Logan Square community where several Latinos reside. Chicago is home to more than 1,782,423 Latinos, and among that population, a few hundred of those individuals call Logan square home. I have witnessed silence imprison people of this community which has allowed injustices to occur. Of the several oppressions that occur within my community, sexism often times is ignored. Within my community the Latino culture is established, and within the Latino culture a patriarchy is set in place; where males are superior to woman, a machismo culture dominants the power of women and domestic and sexual harassment occur. Within my community internal sexism is experienced by many women. In my community, which consist mostly of Latina immigrants, the silence due to fear is present. My hope is to become an ally for those Latinas that fall prey to sexism and help them with their cause by raising my voice against this oppression.
This is the land of opportunities! This misleading statement cost many. Forcing them into poverty, searching for food, trying to make with what they had. Trying there best to give their kids the benefit of the doubt, the life they never had. Many immigrants came to america from, the middle east, the Mediterranean, Southern and Eastern Europe and Canada, all wanting to achieve the same goal, creating a better life.
When Americans think of racism, they usually think of slavery, and that racism is no longer a problem in America. However, this is not the case. Racism is still obvious in America. Racism can be linked directly to stereotypical mindsets of certain groups of people. Today’s racism is not restricted to whites and blacks, and it has come to define many different groups and races. Pigmentation as well as physical characteristics and features still are influential for classifying people. It is easy to overlook the racism that hides below the surface and is part of American life. Today, an estimate 54 million Latinos live in the U.S. and around 43 million people speak Spanish. Although Latinos are the country’s largest minority, anti-Latino prejudice is still common. Very few Americans recognize, acknowledge, and respect the contributions of one of America’s greatest ethnic groups – Hispanics. Americans are often confused as to who Hispanics really are and what they represent in America. Although the United States is known for having a melting pot of diverse cultures, recent studies have shown the rise of discrimination against Latinos and Hispanics immigrants. A person’s legal status should not be an excuse for mistreatment.
In the United States, the Latino American population has risen by over 40% within the past decade and accounts for over 17.1% of the Nations society. In 2050, the Latino Community is expected to make up nearly one-fourth of the population and 2/3 of the U.S. Hispanics are from the Mexican-American Subgroup. In the United States, there has been extensive research examining the prevalence of varying psychiatric disorders among the Latino Hispanic Communities. There are many deeply rooted and socioeconomic factors that may contribute to the diagnosis, treatment, and outcome of psychiatric disorders. Example factors, such as reception of immigrations, history of immigration, experiences involving discrimination, and strength of an ethnic community, are just to name a few. Due to the expansion of the Latino and Hispanic minorities in the United States, this has become a major challenge for today’s healthcare system.
When it comes to identifying the Latino’s population by a type of skin color most would consider themselves as Caucasian while a few identify themselves as Black. Many others associate themselves with indigenous race while others are increasingly identifying themselves as “other”. Their origins range from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Guatemala. Notable differences among the Latino groups center on the aspects of language refinement, educational status, cultural values and attitudes toward mental health treatment (Brice, 2001).