include Mexican-Americans, Puerto Rican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, and Central Americans. Each of these groups vary in their customs, religious beliefs, political views, family views, and other conventions that make them similar in some ways, and very different in others (Franklin, 2009). This paper will discuss the various cultures of Mexican-Americans, Puerto Rican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, and Venezuelan-Americans in America. Mexican-Americans As a result of the Mexican-American war, about
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Mexican-Americans throughout history has never been told truthfully and many people don’t know the history of Chicana/o’s. It all started with Manifest Destiny and the expansion of the United States into Mexico, which cause a huge fraud between them. Then turned into a war where Mexico lost the land and that’s how the creation of Mexican-Americans can to be. Chicana/o comes from a person of Mexican decent or origin but was born in the United States. Over the many heartbreaking years of history between
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After a dictatorship under Porfirio Díaz, that lasted for approximately thirty-five years, the Mexican people finally revolted upon his refusal to give up power. As a response to Diaz’s refusal to give up office in 1910, Francisco Madero, a favored presidential candidate at the time, initiated an anti re-election campaign and talked about land reform (a topic which was of interest to the indigenous communities, who had lost communal land during Díaz’s years of “Progress”). Additionally, several rebellions
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Ethnic Groups and Discrimination xxx xxxx Axia College * * Ethnic Groups and Discrimination Mexican, a word that has so much meaning to it but yet is still not recognize like it should be. Hi, my name is Hector Sanchez, and I am a Mexican, born and raised in Mexico City, one of the largest cities in the World. Being a Mexican has its ups as well as its down. When it comes to the United States and Mexico there is a whole lot to say. People in Mexico see this country
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The Mexican people were subject to a wide range of oppression, and became second class citizens within the U.S. Mexicans as well the indigenous people never fully assimilated into American society, Mexicans as well as the indigenous became a colonized group of people within the United States conquest. After many years of institutionalized racism, Mexicans began to develop an identity, Chicano was a way for people to identify with who they were, and became the staple to gather up the masses as well
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the world has witnessed extraordinary human beings with great talent and unbelievable success. They have become famous and remembered for ages for what they have accomplished. One prime example is Francisco Pancho Villa. He played a key role in the Mexican Revolution, a landmark event in Spanish victory. This is the story of the legend that is still remembered till this day. Francisco Pancho Villa was born on June 5, 1878 in San Juan Rio, Durango (Birth of a Bandit1). His birth name was “Doroteo
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Hispanic American Diversity The United States has always been a country that has many diverse racial and ethnic groups. The United States has the highest and fastest growing minority group, the Hispanics. The population of Hispanics continues to grow every year and they have become a big part of the United States. I believe Hispanics play a major role in the United States and they have a lot to offer. The Hispanic population helps to support the economy and the work force. Hispanic groups
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Mexican Revolution The Spanish came to México in around the sixteenth century to change México to the Spanish rule (Wikipedia). México’s colonies were free from Spanish rule in the year if 1821 when Spaniards left (Wikipedia). Spain had arrived in pre-Columbian country in about the 18th century and since there was a dense population there they forced labor on them to make more of an easy job for them (Wikipedia). Once they captured the pre-Columbian country the Spaniards decided to take México again
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last 30 years, part of this is from acculturation between generations. Mexican Americans Mexican-Americans have been both a conquered people and immigrants, in the sense of both terms. After the United States prevailed in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the American Southwest was created which was populated with about 80,000 Mexicans. The Spanish influence is quite strong in Mexican American people. Mexican-Americans have always held strong religious beliefs predominately following
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years here nevertheless my roots as a Mexican will always be present. 2. The historical connection between Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans is that they became Americans by default as part of the goods in big time real estate deals or as some of the spoils of the war. I do not believe this is valid since there has always been immigrants who become citizens in different forms. I became a citizen because of my dad’s job I do not believe that every Mexican American or Puerto Ricans have that connection
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