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The following groups have been chosen when identifying the linguistic, political, social,
economic, religious,and familial conventions and/or statuses of four Hispanic groups
living in the United States; El Salvadorians, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and Cubans.
Regardless of these groups the United States Office of Budget and Management coined the
term "Hispanic" in 1978 to classify all of these people. Each group has a rich cultural
identity but has been placed in the same category, Hispanic Americans, on the basis of
language. All these groups share the Spanish language, though each has a different dialect
and some words spelled and pronounced the same have different meanings.
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans language is made up of a mix of their national language Spanish and
English, sometimes referred to as Spanglish. Politically Mexican Americans were very
active in the Mexican American Civil Rights movement spearheaded by Mendoza, V.
"Reies L*pez Tijerina and the land grant movement, is picked up by Rodolfo "Corky"
Gonzales in Denver who defines the meaning of Chicano through his epic poem I am
Joaquin, embraces C*sar Ch*vez and the farm workers"(2000). The movement as defined
by Mendoza, V. "The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement" "encompassed a broad
cross section of issuesfrom restoration of land grants, to farm workers rights, to enhanced
education, to voting and political rights".
Socially Mexican Americans often want what all immigrants who come to this country
seeking; the American Dream. (Alba, R. 2006). Educationally, Mexican Americans, no
matter the generation rarely go past High School; according to the reading, Alba, R.
"Huntington presents data that appear to show very low levels of Mexican-American
educational advancement beyond high school, regardless of generation." And that; "Thus,
he cites numbers reported from the National Latino Political Survey, conducted at the end
of the 1980s, to show that no more than 10 percent of Mexican Americans of any
generation earn a credential beyond high school and only 4 percent of the fourth
generation attains the baccalaureate; 40 percent of this generation fails to obtain the high
school diploma." (2006)
Throughout the immigration of Mexicans to America it seems that little progress is made
for Mexican Americans to move up from immigrant status to mainstream social status.
Due in part to the amount of discrimination and poor educational systems that were
provided to them, Mexican Americans have not really assimilated themselves into the
American mainstream culture. (Alba, R. 2006) Economically, Mexican Americans are
pushing for fair pay. This plays out most predominately in the Mexican American Civil
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