Then, another aspect that will be analized is hispanophobia. There must be a reason why american feels uncomfortable with hispanic. For many people there was a belief that the darkness of a person's skin had a direct correlation with their intelligence as well as their level of ability and intelligence. This special kind of racism is known as Hispanophobia.“Hispanophobia is a fear, distrust, aversion, or discrimination of Hispanic people, Hispanic culture and the Spanish language”. (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanophobia).
NUR/440 Vulnerable Population/Self Awareness Paper June 24, 2012 My personal impression and bias before researching Hispanic families are: Hispanic families consist of large groups of family members including grandma and grandpa, cousins, aunt and uncles all living together. Most Hispanic people work on farms or are blue collar workers due to their language barrier, and because of this do not have higher-education or so called college-level degrees. To me this translates into jobs that do not offer particularly high pay or health insurance for their workers. The older Hispanic people never learn to speak English because in the home the native language is always spoken. The elderly are always living with a son or daughter so they are never put in nursing homes and they help take care of the household and the grandchildren.
Divorce is neither common nor acceptable in the Mexican culture. When Mexicans get married, they are in it for the long haul. 4. How important is “family” in your culture? Family is the single most important aspect of the Mexican culture.
Although it was possible to succeed if you came from a town like Arpinum, Cicero had another piece of the political jigsaw missing; he was not born into the elite social class- the nobiles. Although Cicero’s own family were well off respectable people, none of them had a place in the Senate. The Senate consisted of the nobiles and very were jealous about who joined their prestigious ranks. Cicero’s main goal in life was to become Consul. This was going to be another problem for Cicero as all consulships had been held by the top 20 families in Rome, something he was not part of.
The illegal immigrants are flowing into the USA because they want better lives, better jobs, and some rights they do not receive in their own country. After annexation, all Mexican citizens would be U.S. citizens (savings lots of paperwork and Guest Worker diatribes), eligible for many government programs including Social Security, along with being able to earn the minimum wage which is far above what they get from their employers under the Mexican government. The United States gave Mexico about $69 million in 2006, which is a pittance compared to the unfathomable amounts sent to Colombia and Peru, $561 million and $146 million respectively. Channeling about half of that aid from just those two countries would give Mexico a real boost to begin to rebuild their infrastructure and business climate. The work ethic of the Mexican population is legend, and with good wages the economy would be booming in short
In the Hispanic community there are individuals that are U.S. citizens, residents, and illegal immigrants, only U.S. citizens are allowed to vote in elections. For example, in California there are 12 municipalities that 50% of their population is illegal immigrants; these individuals are hardworking people that pay taxes and send their children to public schools. (Bedolla 2009) However, they are not allowed to participate in political elections. Many non-citizens have problems learning the English language and that serves as a barrier for them to participate in campaigns, rallies, or public meetings since they are all conducted in the English language. We can conclude that in our unit of analysis when comparing non-citizenship with U.S. citizens, there is a relation that affects the Hispanic political participation.
These abrupt, declarative statements demonstrate her utter contempt for Stanley. While this syntax reveals Blanche’s distaste for Stanley, it also brings out a conflict in the old society versus the new society. One of the main reasons for Blanche’s anger is the fact that Stanley does not fit into her old societal standards, he is not a gentleman, he is neither good nor wholesome, and yet he seems to be ruling over Stella and the new society. It is Stanley’s demeanor in a new society that has Blanche speaking in an
The fact that they are talking about doing away with the programs in all is what I find to be, quite shocking seeing as I took Spanish growing up. They call it the Anti Bilingual movement, but some states such as Texas and Arizona are refusing to participate and are keeping with teaching children a second language as to further their skills in life. As it says in the article, Education is a long term process and involves more than just the English
First of all, there were my little eyes that not only I had, but my brother and mother as well. For the longest time I just thought that was the Hispanic side, but on my birthday I found out that it wasn’t. I actually had a piece of Korean in my blood. It changed my whole aspect because I would always hear stories about my grandfather, but not too much about his family. Now I knew there could be aunts and uncles in Korean that we probably knew nothing about.
Pat Mora’s poem entitled Immigrants is a very accurate representation of this point. In her writing she describes the general emotions and actions of families who have moved to America from spanish and polish speaking countries. Mora has a very interesting way of capturing many immigrant parents concerns about raising their child as a “fine american boy” or a “fine american girl” (Mora) by the standards set by the society around them. As mentioned earlier the United States definately does not make it easy for immigrants to create a life,