Analysis Of Ada Diaz's The Big Four: Hispanics In America

The Big Four: Hispanics in America; staring points In Ada Diaz’s article Hispanic in America: starting points, she explains how Hispanics in America are not here to repel against the American society, and have nothing but respect towards this country. Hispanics in America; starting points was published in may13, 1991 issue of Christianity in crisis. Diaz explains the struggles of Hispanics throughout America and, shows how the struggle does exist. She writes from the perspective of a Hispanic woman herself. The purpose of the article is simply to elaborate how Hispanics blend into the American society. The situation in this article is Diaz’s desire to show the Hispanic struggles going on through America. The target audiences of this article are obviously Hispanics in America. Mainly and most impor-tantly Diaz does claim that Hispanics were here first
Diaz stated “ Due mostly to their geographical proximity and to the continuous flow of more Hispanic into the United States ; and the fact the largest groups of Hispanics, Mexican Americans and Puerto Ri-cans are geographically and politically an integral part of this country; these factors, among oth-ers, make us different”(48). What she is referring to is, Hispanics accepting their difference doesn’t make them better or worse than any other minority but simply different, has to be the Hispanics way for others to understand them. She also mentions that the Hispanic race is geo-graphically and politically an integral part of this country, explaining how Latinos participate and are as involved as an average American citizen because of the lifestyle Hispanics are introduced