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| Date Added: | 10 / 03 / 2008 |
| Category: | World History |
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Mexican Americans
Linguistic
Hispanics, in the United States, share the heritage of the Spanish language. They do not all speak Spanish all the time; some, despite their heritage, do not know the language at all. The Spanish they use is differently depending their area of origin and the length of tome in United States and if they were born here.
Political
Some politics agendas such as Sons of America, The Knights of America and The League of Latin American have reflected their interest in the Mexican American politics and the major force in the elections they actually have. In 1975, Congress moved to recognize the multilingual background of the U.S. population. Federal law now requires bilingual or even multilingual ballots in voting districts where at least 5 percent of the voting-age population or 10,000 of the population do not speak English. Even before Congress acted, the federal courts had been ordering cities such as Chicago, Miami, and New York City to provide bilingual ballots where necessary. In the November 2002 elections, some 296 counties and municipalities in 30 states issued multilingual ballots (Migration News 2002b).
Social Economic
Increasingly incorporated into the labor market in the nineteenth century as unskilled or semi-skilled manual laborers, Mexican Americans experienced job displacement, and in some areas, actual downward occupational mobility. Anglo hostility and low levels of education limited their access to jobs in the rapidly expanding white-collar sector, and Mexicans also encountered obstacles to upward mobility even in occupations in which they had considerable skill and experience. Mexicans disappeared completely from the ranks of hat makers, masons, and tailors.
Mexicans found employment on ranches only as ranch hands, while Anglos held most supervisory positions.
Religion
Julian Samora and Patricia Vandel Simon (no date) states, Mexican American religious experience in American society is a...
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