Fertility and the Latino Community In fertility discourse‚ the Latino community presents an interesting dynamic to analyze. Often Latino fertility is viewed as an “out of control” fertility in narratives that depict Latinos as a threat to national security in America in terms of immigration. An example depicting this comes from Leo Chavez’s The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants‚ Citizens and the Nation‚ considering the opening screen of an online game‚ Border Patrol (2013). This interactive
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The immigration experience as a Latino-American is as diverse as the manifold cultures that the pan-ethnic identity‚ Latino‚ aims to subsume. With regards to the immigration experience‚ Zavella (1991) lays an emphasis on the notion of social location. The difference among Latinos in American society is embedded in their “social location within the social structure”‚ in which identity‚ or one’s sense of self‚ is emergent from the intersected social spaces formed by class‚ race/ethnicity‚ gender‚ and
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Spanish-speaking immigrants have rights to bilingual education? With the increase of the Latino population in New York City during the 1960s caused the school system to be faced with a new issue of language rights. My topic of bilingual education is important because with the increasing presence of Latinos it brings an increasing number of Limited English Proficient Students to the country. Being a first or second generation Latino having a bilingual education makes a difference in one life by causing them to
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Afro-Latino in New York City Growing up in New York City is a very unique experience. You grow up surrounded by a diverse population of people packed tightly into one city. But with this kind of diversity come the questions of self-identification and how others view you. I was born and raised in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights which is known for its mostly Dominican population. Moreover‚ growing up in the public school system and everyday New York living has exposed me
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As the Latino community increasingly grows in the U.S.‚ a large majority of individuals rejoice at the inevitable upcoming opportunities for political‚ economic‚ and social inclusion. This inevitable inclusion is obtainable primarily because the Latino community promotes itself and is promoted by others as a homogenous whole that is powerful in numbers. This homogeneity‚ although strategic also fails to recognize that through the same strategy it is also erasing and failing to allocate these future
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Diversity “Providing Culture-Sensitive Healthcare to Hispanic/Latino Patients” A Hispanic patient with a high fever may resist cold compress because their theory of “hot” and “cold” imbalance. They use hot things to cure cold and cold thing to cure the body being “hot”. For instance within the American medical field we use heat foe hot. If you’re running a fever things that makes you sweat it out are better. So the difficulties that the Hispanic patient will bring is simply not following the physician’s
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grandparents were born and raised in Mexico. My grandfather on my dad’s side passed away before I could meet him‚ and my grandmother passed away in 2005. On my mom’s side‚ both of my grandparents are still here today‚ happy and healthy. Growing up Hispanic has always been an amazing thing. There are traditions‚ foods‚ big families‚ and a big community that always has my back. I was thought‚ to chase my dreams no matter what they were. The way my family has
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For my topic and potential research paper I chose to do my research on hate crimes focusing on the Latino population. I chose this because I am currently taking Latino/a Struggles for Civil Rights and Social Justice. The course focuses on social movements that have occurred in the past and the effects the social movements have had on social justice and civil rights for Latino/as today‚ as well as other impacts the movements may have had on other minorities. For this course‚ I was instructed to do
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12/07/13 Chicano Studies Chicano/ Latino Holidays Holidays are days of festivity or recreation in which work is normally canceled and families or friends get together and celebrate for a certain purpose. Within separate cultures the holidays or celebrations may be different. For example within the Jewish culture those who follow that religion may celebrate Hanukkah. Within my research paper I will be covering the holidays that the Chicano or Latino culture celebrates. For example holidays such
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The Latino community have been in the United States for a long period of time; however‚ this ethnicity has been the ones who face discrimination and limited resources which becomes an obstacle for their success in the country. The Latino Threat‚ by Leo R. Chavez‚ emphasizes the economic‚ political‚ and social injustices that the Latino population face. Latinos have been called a “threat” by the American media who portray Latinos as irresponsible‚ lazy‚ and rapist. This criticize supports the idea
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