Diversity Race Today
Diversity and Race Today
Kathryn Vanwhite
ETH/ 125
March 30, 2013
Sharon White
Diversity and Race Today
Diversity and race have played a big part of our history and as a society we can learn and grow from this experience. Hispanic and American Latino or Mexican heritage have experienced many hardships during the immigration period to the United States. They originally came here in search of better jobs and housing but found that difficult when trying to gain citizenship. Some have lived here illegally forcing them to be sent back to their homeland. Because of this, many Hispanic people are looked upon as illegal aliens and treated as outsiders.
Immigration of the Hispanic and American Latino population can be …show more content…
For example, the Muslim and Arab people came to American by following the Spanish Muslims. Earlier, Spanish Muslims followed people into America and made impressions at a world fair, help in Philadelphia, St Louis and Chicago. This is where most people got the first experience of the Muslim culture. Another example would be the Asian Americans. Their immigration is thought to be the most recent of all cultures. Only about 17,000 total came here from 1820-1965. They had a hard time as the supreme court ruled that Asian Americans could not become citizens because they were not White. The immigration laws for the Asian Americans began to drop and the more of the skilled population were allowed in the United States. Among this was a person who spoke English and also had some type of degree of specialty that would be …show more content…
As mentioned above, the biggest issue here would be the social status. Since immigration, Hispanics have been forced to take meaningless jobs often working for penny’s on a dollar, they are considered a dime a dozen when it comes to workers. They will work in almost any kind of condition and live in whatever housing they can find, often with many people in the same household. Because of this, people have always judged this race and will probably always continue to do so. Also, the Spanish dialect also plays a part here. Speaking Spanish has always been a big part of the racism suffered. Many people believe that they should speak English if they choose to live here. This will continue until something changes and people become more accepting of
Kathryn Vanwhite
ETH/ 125
March 30, 2013
Sharon White
Diversity and Race Today
Diversity and race have played a big part of our history and as a society we can learn and grow from this experience. Hispanic and American Latino or Mexican heritage have experienced many hardships during the immigration period to the United States. They originally came here in search of better jobs and housing but found that difficult when trying to gain citizenship. Some have lived here illegally forcing them to be sent back to their homeland. Because of this, many Hispanic people are looked upon as illegal aliens and treated as outsiders.
Immigration of the Hispanic and American Latino population can be …show more content…
For example, the Muslim and Arab people came to American by following the Spanish Muslims. Earlier, Spanish Muslims followed people into America and made impressions at a world fair, help in Philadelphia, St Louis and Chicago. This is where most people got the first experience of the Muslim culture. Another example would be the Asian Americans. Their immigration is thought to be the most recent of all cultures. Only about 17,000 total came here from 1820-1965. They had a hard time as the supreme court ruled that Asian Americans could not become citizens because they were not White. The immigration laws for the Asian Americans began to drop and the more of the skilled population were allowed in the United States. Among this was a person who spoke English and also had some type of degree of specialty that would be …show more content…
As mentioned above, the biggest issue here would be the social status. Since immigration, Hispanics have been forced to take meaningless jobs often working for penny’s on a dollar, they are considered a dime a dozen when it comes to workers. They will work in almost any kind of condition and live in whatever housing they can find, often with many people in the same household. Because of this, people have always judged this race and will probably always continue to do so. Also, the Spanish dialect also plays a part here. Speaking Spanish has always been a big part of the racism suffered. Many people believe that they should speak English if they choose to live here. This will continue until something changes and people become more accepting of