Unlock document.
This document is partially blurred.
Unlock all pages and 1 million more documents.
Get Access
Hispanic American Diversity
By: Corina
ETH 125
October 25, 2009
Hispanic American Diversity
The American Dream is what most of the Hispanic ethnic groups call the United States.
Puerto Rican, Cuban, Mexican, and Dominican Americans have a lot in common, yet they
remain in separate ethnic groups. Customarily, since Americans arrived on the United
States soils they have not been accepted of immigrants on their lands, but even though they
have not been accepted they are tolerated and appear in increasing numbers all of the
United States. Not all Hispanics speak Spanish and because some despite their heritage or
some have never been taught the language. In 2002 twenty-three percent of Mexican
Americans are English dominant, 26 percent are bilingual, and 51 percent are Spanish
dominant (Schaefer, 2006). With Puerto Ricans they tend to speak more English and the
Dominicans Americans speak mostly Spanish and fluently.
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans are diverse people who are in pursuit of the American Dream and they
are work hard at towards an Escape to live a humble life in America. Mexican Americans
who have lived in the United States for more than 10 years have picked up on the English
language well and so well that the younger generations that have came for those families
have also picked up English and it had became their dominant language or primary
language. Throughout the history of immigration to America, Mexicans seem to have
made little progress in moving up from immigrants to mainstream social status partly due
to the amount of poor educational systems and discrimination provided to them (Alba,
