Are you Puerto Rican or American? Hesitantly‚ I don’t know what to say when people ask me this question because I feel that I have to choose between the two ethnicities. Since I was born in the U.S.‚ I am considered American. But‚ if I say I am American‚ I am asked about my origins. Thus‚ controversy evolves around inhabitants of Puerto Rico because they are considered Americans since Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States. My skin is white‚ my eyes are brown‚ and my hair is dark brown
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PARLIAMENT Parliamentary and Presidential systems Systems of gov’t can be classified as either parliamentary or presidential. The terms refer to the type of relationship between the executive and the legislature. In parliamentary systems‚ the executive and the legislature are interconnected. There is no strict separation of powers. The gov’t (executive) is normally chosen from the representatives of the majority party (or coalition group‚ if no single party has a majority) elected to legislature
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influences. The Cuban people and their customs are based on African‚ European and Native American influences. Cuba has a very interesting and rich culture. All these other countries influence the culture of Cuba. Cuba has a variety of different influences from other countries that are included in such things as music‚ dancing‚ food‚ history and sports. The music of Cuba has an enormous African and European influence. One of the main musical fusions in Cuban music is the son. Other typical Cuban forms are
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The Mexican Revolution‚ which lasted from about 1910 to 1930‚ ended the dictatorship in Mexico and established a constitutional republic. Revolutionaries including Madero‚ Zapata and Villa led various groups that fought in a long and costly war. Although a constitution was drafted in 1917‚ periodic violence continued into the 1930’s. Political oppression led people‚ like Madero‚ to organize and revolt against an unjust government. The action of taking away native land from the natives was another
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history of the Latino Americans‚ about the Cubans‚ the Puerto Ricans‚ and the Mexican. They think of United States as a paradise because they had jobs for everyone so they tried to get across. Thousands of them tried to immigrate to the United States. They risked everything not knowing whether they could achieve anything. The video tells us how the Latinos in the United States do. From 1836 to 1914‚ over 30 million people immigrated to the United States. Puerto Ricans and Cubans brought tobacco‚ coffee
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Christine Costanzo Puerto Rican Migration to New York City The story of the Puerto Rican people is unique in the history of U.S. immigration‚ just as Puerto Rico occupies a distinctive—and sometimes confusing—position in the nation’s civic fabric. Puerto Rico has been a possession of the U.S. for more than a century‚ but it has never been a state. Its people have been U.S. citizens since 1917‚ but they have no vote in Congress. As citizens‚ the people of Puerto Rico can move throughout the
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When the Europeans landed in the Americas‚ they were surprised to find that other people had already populated the land. These people came to be known as Indians to the Europeans‚ and Native Americans to us today. They were called Indians due to the fact that the Europeans at first thought that they were in India‚ as they stumbled across the Americas whilst looking for a quicker shipping route to India‚ not knowing the fast land masses that separated Europe and India. Eventually though they discovered
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West Coast. Unionization had a rocky start‚ especially because different races each made separate demands from companies‚ who would therefore grant neither wish. Bulosan says that‚ “The companies would not recognize their separate demands...they [Mexicans and Filipinos] had not recognized one important part: that the beet companies conspired against
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HisRepresenting nearly 63% Mexican Americans are the largest group of all the Hispanic Americans in the United States (US Census Bureau‚ 2011). Originally encouraged to settle into what is now Texas to boost Mexico’s economy. As the number of settlers increased‚ so did their want of autonomy – resulting in a battle over land and rights in the Mexican American War in 1846. According to “The U.S.-Mexican War‚ The Aftermath (2006)” by war’s end “approximately 80‚000 Mexicans resided in the territory
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unnecessary‚ they wanted the Americans to be captured and held hostage; with no harm done to their bodies. How the majority of the Americans felt about this war is a social factor because it changed the way neighbors saw and treated each other. It separated many relationships during this war. With this negative mindset of the war‚ the volunteer rates dropped tremendously; the army had to do something to get the numbers back up to where they need them. They started to force Americans to volunteer to serve
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