In school, Richard spoke English, but as soon as he got home, Spanish was the language of choice. This had a positive and negative effect on him. By speaking Spanish, it helped Rodriguez preserve his own culture, but as a disadvantage, it yielded his learning of English. A few times Richard heard his parents speak English, but that was only in public. Rodriguez felt safe in his Spanish speaking home because it was familiar to him.
Many Americans believe that Hispanics that are not legal in this country do not deserve to have a job in this country, and have taken away the jobs that are left for Americans. The attitude that the American citizens have developed toward the Hispanic community has put pressure on the government and employers of America. As a result, many Hispanics think they are discriminated against by their employers. Hispanics are discriminated against in employment by, low wages when compared to African Americans and Caucasians one report the Usa Today published concluded that Hispanics were paid on average 34% less than Caucasians and African Americans by 40% of employers. Hispanics also believe that their employers in the community do not treat them fairly and do not see them as equals in the community.
My Firsts Days in U.S. When I first came to U.S I was 16 years old. In the beginning of my new life in U.S was a little frustrating because of the language. For me was a very difficult thing and even now it still is. And in the following paragraphs I’m going to tell you some of my experiences on my first days in U.S. As soon as we came to U.S my mom told me that I have to start the school but she said “don’t worry the school is bilingual, they going to give you the classes in Spanish and they going to teach you English too” so I didn’t worry.
Extended Response – Explain why the KKK was feared between the 1920s & 1930s. By 1900 USA was a mixture of all sorts of people who had come from other countries and after 1900 most immigrants came from the poorer parts of Southern Europe (Italy, Greece, Turkey) and Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia. Hungary). The early immigrants had come to dominate the wealth and power in America and they did not like the country being flooded with the later immigrants whom they saw as a threat to their positions of power. Although many people were against immigrants and they had no support from any non-immigrants there was one man, W.E.B DuBois, who believed in true and absolute racial equality.
After not only losing a huge amount of land to the United States of America, many Mexicans such as the gold diggers and even New Mexicans that had already been residing in American territory had to face problems with their own civil rights and citizenship (pg.103, pg.104). This is what shaped the geographical boundaries that the United States has today. The Mexican war did not leave a pleasing result for New Mexico and many of the Mexicans residing in the Southwest because of the violent attacks coming from the Indians in their settlements (pg.104). Although Mexico was angered by the loss of their land, some Mexicans in specific were grateful for the settlement because now Mexico had protection from the United States for their properties
Is racism and anti-Semitism still a problem in the United States? Is racism and anti-Semitism still a problem in the United States? The reason I chose this topic for my assignment is because it bothers me that even though I am an American born citizen, am a military veteran, and pay taxes; I am still considered and classified as a minority by my country. My family, like many other families we know of directly who have experienced racism in this country due to ignorance, because of our physical appearance, because of negative stereotypes given to us by this country and lack of knowledge. While in high school my friends and I got our first taste of racism, when we tried to start a M.E.Ch.A.
To conclude, black people all over the world, wherever they live were for a long time victim of racism for their skin color. People treated them badly only because they had a darker skin color, forgetting that that we are all humans and the color of our skins an where we come from doesn’t indicate our personalities and beliefs. Black in America suffered a lot for reason of racism and went through the hard ships and difficulties
This is not right, or rational that people would risk so much in order to come to the United States, to work a job that most American citizens will not work. Yet we are hateful and mean, protesting, these people rights to make a living and support their families, if the work wasn’t here they would not come. Do you think the Native Americans like what happened to them, when the first generation immigrated to American, many Native Americans are still suffering the effect of the colonization of America. Published in the Huffington post a video “Native American Man Tells Anti-Illegal Immigration Protesters Who 'The Real Illegal Immigrants Are’ it goes on to say that a Native American man tells protesters “We didn’t invite none of you here. We’re the only Native Americans here.”(Ramos Z 2013) Are the Americans that don’t support open borders scared, because they don’t want what happened to the Native Americans,
From racial profiling to other issues such as affirmative action, police brutality against minorities and the history of slavery and the rising resentment against immigrants.” (Anup Shah 1998) I think this really does suit racism in the United States. Yes it has come a long way from what it used to be like but we still have problems just like this all over the world. Way back in the day American people didn’t have much racism towards them but Americans were very racist towards everyone who was not American. They had all sorts of racial groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, save our state, and gay groups. These groups of hate have died down over the years but there are still a few out
A significant number of migrant workers and other immigrants immigrate to the United States looking for a better life. Unfortunately is not always what they expect to be, throughout their immigration process they have to face humiliation from Americans that are in the border and treat them like animals and criminals. I am from Mexico and when I was 6 years old my parents had to come to the United States because if their economic hardship in Mexico. We cross the border illegally and had the bad experience of meeting the dark side of the United States and how inhumane they can be sometimes. After immigrants cross the border their nightmare is not yet to be over, they have to be hiding all the time from not only immigrant officers looking for them, but, also sometimes from police officers that are in the watch for people like us.