Hispanic American Diversity
...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 López 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 César Chávez 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...
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