8) However, Latinos come from various countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, with the largest percentage coming from Mexico. During the period between 1950 and 1996, the total U.S. population grew from 151.3 million to 264.8 million. This represents an increase of more than 75%. During the same period, the Latino population grew from 4.0 million to 27.2 million, an increase of more than 600%. Latinos currently compromise 13% of the nation's population and are projected to grow to 56 million by 2010 and reach 70 million by 2020.
The second generation earned 6.3 percent more than American-born workers in 2000, compared to nearly 15 percent more in 1970 and almost 18 percent more in 1940. Some of the difference in immigrant's earnings reflects the dramatic change in the economic and ethnic
One of the many races that migrated to the United States is the Vietnamese race. After the fall of Saigon, Vietnamese refugees have fled their homeland to seek for a better life. Now, 30 years later, they have become an industry of their own. According to the latest census, there are approximately 1.2 million Vietnamese Americans living in the United States. This makes Vietnamese Americans the fifth largest immigrant group in the United States , right after the Mexican, Filipino, Chinese, and Indian foreign-born (Lehman, 2000).
An interesting fact is that, Ecuador has lost about two-thirds of the territory it once claimed to Colombia and Peru. When it comes to the history of Ecuador it all started with the tribes in the northern highlands of Ecuador formed the Kingdom of Quito around 1000. It was absorbed, by conquest and marriage, into the Inca Empire. Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro conquered the land in 1532, and throughout the 17th century a Spanish colony thrived by exploitation of the Indians. The first revolt against Spain occurred in 1809.
TIMELINE 1200 A.D. The Incan empire begins The Inca first settle in the Cuzco Valley of what is now the country of Peru in South America. They will go on to control land along the Pacific Coast as far north as southern Columbia, as far south as northern Chile, and that stretches into eastern Bolivia. Manco Capac starts the Inca. Manco Capac is considered the first Inca.
236). The GDP was estimated to have changed by around 8 percent between 1934 and 1940. In comparison, in 2005 the real GDP was measured between $0.7 trillion and close to $1.1 trillion a change of around 50 percent. The aggregate supply curve in the 1930’s is also known as the Keynesian short-run aggregate supply curve. This is the “horizontal portion of the aggregate supply curve in which there is excessive unemployment and unused capacity in the economy” (Miller, 2012, pg.
Cuba was a colony of Spain for a numerous amount of centuries. With the declining of the Spanish empire, Cuba wanted to gain their independence from them. Majority of the refugees came to the United States with an exaggerated story about the Spanish Atrocity against the Cubans who rebelled them. This caused the story to be printed through the use of Yellow Journalism. The United States said that they would provide support to the Cuban rebels.
A comparison between Mexico and the USA For two neighbouring countries, Mexico and the USA are very different. The US is a MEDC, with a GNP of $26,980. Mexico, on the other hand, is an LEDC, and only has a GNP of $3,320. The natural increase of the Mexican population means that the population doubling size will occur in just 32 years, whereas in the USA it will take well over a century. Mexico’s infant mortality is almost 5 times that of the USA’s, and the birth rate is almost double.
Gen X usually includes people from the early 1980’s to 1882. They usually take up 44 to 50 million of the population. This generation marks the period of time where birth rates declined. Gen X composes of people of their 30’s and early 40’s, they are known as more diverse and better educated (more than 60% of Gen X attended college). Gen X is Individualistic; they came from an era of two-income families, rising divorce rates, and a faltering economy.
In 2007, the labor department recorded their largest increase in membership in 25 years, since 1979. Many of the recent memberships have been in the service industry and there has been a decline in the manufacturing industry. In the 1940s, union density statistics were as follows: Public employees represented by unions – 9.8%, 33.9% in the private/non-agricultural section. In the last 10 years, the percentages have flipped to: 36% of the public sector represented by unions and 6.89% of the private sector represented by the unions. In 2007, the private sector density rose to 7.7%, but declined in 2009 to a low of