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Ethnic, Military, and Social interactions between Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Ricans, and Americans since the mid-19th century
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Please incorporate elements of these three groups: Mexicans/Mexican Americans, Cubans/Cuban Americans, and Puerto Ricans. With the first two groups, describe the development of national identity in Mexico and Cuba starting from the mid-19th century. Answer: does the historical development of national identities reflect on Cuban and Mexican ethnic identity in the United States? How or how not? In the case of Puerto Ricans, how does the history of Puerto Rico's relationship with the United States reflect on the local population in the U.S., and are Puerto Ricans in the United States still battling “colonialism”? Do historical U.S.-Latin American relations reflect on Latino ethnic identities in this country? And finally, how did gang-related identities develop as expressions of ethnicity in the U.S.? Juan Gonzalez has his own theories regarding identity in as a product of Latin American's historic relationship with the U.S. You may agree or disagree with Gonzalez, but your overall argument must have a strong thesis statement that can be backed by evidence, and your conclusion must reflect your findings based on that evidence. For source material, you must include Juan Gonzalez' "Harvest of Empire" then may use these news sources: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Nation, or the Christian Science Monitor.
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Ethnic, Military, and Social interactions between Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Ricans, and Americans since the mid-19th century
Mexicans/Mexican Americans and Cuban/Cuban Americans
United States is characterized with multicultural societies; this is based on the massive immigrants entering the United States from all over the world. Multicultural societies have presented a challenge of defining the National Identity. A number of scholars have argued that America is a nation characterized with immigrants.
The founders of United States were settlers and not immigrants mainly from the British origin. It is argued that British settlers took control of North America, thereby forming a new society; people who moved from all over the world to the United States were later referred to as the immigrants. Some of the immigrants originated from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico. American’s creed over the years has been associated with the American identity. In the sense that American creed defined equality, liberty, representative government, individualism and the aspect of private property ownership.
Settlers in the United States originated from Spanish, British, French and Portuguese among others. Surveys have shown that a good number of United States Hispanics described themselves from their native cultural affiliations. Findings indicated that a Mexican American is actually a citizen of United States with Mexican descent. The national identity for Mexican Americans has advocated for voting rights, against employment discrimination, against educational discrimination, against ethnic discrimination; in the support for social and economic advancement. Mexican Americans has worked closely in protecting and defining the identity of the community. Mexico and United States were involved in a number of factional battles and civil wars in protecting their borders, Texas and California being an example of an area under disputes.
Santa Anna, the then president of Mexico ordered massacre through an army for all the settlements of the American people, although Texans defeated the Mexican army. In World War II, people from all walks of life supported the American government in winning the war. In 1943, there erupted mini riots and skirmishes as Mexican American teenagers crashed with the American authorities. It was noted that a number of Mexican Americans had diverse organizational skills and new model of trades that enhanced better paying jobs in the United States.
Veteran Mexican Americans were entitled to GI Bill, which facilitated health, education, mortgages and insurance among others. Mexicans were used by the United States in addressing the wartime shortages of labor. Bracero Program addressed the contract laborers of the Mexican origin in the United States. The ending of the Bracero program saw more than four million immigrants from Mexico in the United States. The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act regulated the Latin American people entering the United States. It is argued that the historical development of the Mexican American people in the United States reflect on the Mexican ethnic identity. Cuban American represented a big chunk of the Hispanic groups, it has been noted that the Cuban American are people who originated from Cuba but currently are citizens of the United States.
It has been noted majority of the United States communities have traces of Cuban Americans. Immigration of the Cubans to the United States dates back to 1565, it has been noted that Spanish-Cuban soldiers together with their families found their way into the United States mainly in the period of the Spanish rule, majority of the immigrants settled in Texas. Cuba suffered social unrest, economic downturn and unclear political temperatures that led people immigrating to the United States.
Fidel Castro in 1959 led a revolution known as the Cuban Revolution that led to massive immigration into the United States, as Cuba aligned itself to communism. Operation Peter Plan led to Cuban children being educated in United States. Cuban Americans have maintained their national identity, it was noted that identity is shaped by social, political, ideological and differences in generations. Cuban American identity is part of the larger group of the United States multicultural society. It is documented that majority of the Cuban immigrants in the United States dated back to two decades in 1959, with United States being the choice of the political, economic and intellectual among the elites. It is argued that the historical development of the Cuban American people in the United States reflected on the Cuban ethnic identity.
Puerto Ricans
Puerto Rican Americans are commonly referred to as the Stateside Puerto Ricans; these are citizens of the United States with an origin of Puerto Rico. History indicated that since 1952, Puerto Rico was known under the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which was part of the United States. Jones-Shafroth Act in 1917 gave some of the Puerto Ricans the citizenship of the United States.
Surveys have shown that majority...
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Lecturer
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Ethnic, Military, and Social interactions between Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Ricans, and Americans since the mid-19th century
Mexicans/Mexican Americans and Cuban/Cuban Americans
United States is characterized with multicultural societies; this is based on the massive immigrants entering the United States from all over the world. Multicultural societies have presented a challenge of defining the National Identity. A number of scholars have argued that America is a nation characterized with immigrants.
The founders of United States were settlers and not immigrants mainly from the British origin. It is argued that British settlers took control of North America, thereby forming a new society; people who moved from all over the world to the United States were later referred to as the immigrants. Some of the immigrants originated from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico. American’s creed over the years has been associated with the American identity. In the sense that American creed defined equality, liberty, representative government, individualism and the aspect of private property ownership.
Settlers in the United States originated from Spanish, British, French and Portuguese among others. Surveys have shown that a good number of United States Hispanics described themselves from their native cultural affiliations. Findings indicated that a Mexican American is actually a citizen of United States with Mexican descent. The national identity for Mexican Americans has advocated for voting rights, against employment discrimination, against educational discrimination, against ethnic discrimination; in the support for social and economic advancement. Mexican Americans has worked closely in protecting and defining the identity of the community. Mexico and United States were involved in a number of factional battles and civil wars in protecting their borders, Texas and California being an example of an area under disputes.
Santa Anna, the then president of Mexico ordered massacre through an army for all the settlements of the American people, although Texans defeated the Mexican army. In World War II, people from all walks of life supported the American government in winning the war. In 1943, there erupted mini riots and skirmishes as Mexican American teenagers crashed with the American authorities. It was noted that a number of Mexican Americans had diverse organizational skills and new model of trades that enhanced better paying jobs in the United States.
Veteran Mexican Americans were entitled to GI Bill, which facilitated health, education, mortgages and insurance among others. Mexicans were used by the United States in addressing the wartime shortages of labor. Bracero Program addressed the contract laborers of the Mexican origin in the United States. The ending of the Bracero program saw more than four million immigrants from Mexico in the United States. The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act regulated the Latin American people entering the United States. It is argued that the historical development of the Mexican American people in the United States reflect on the Mexican ethnic identity. Cuban American represented a big chunk of the Hispanic groups, it has been noted that the Cuban American are people who originated from Cuba but currently are citizens of the United States.
It has been noted majority of the United States communities have traces of Cuban Americans. Immigration of the Cubans to the United States dates back to 1565, it has been noted that Spanish-Cuban soldiers together with their families found their way into the United States mainly in the period of the Spanish rule, majority of the immigrants settled in Texas. Cuba suffered social unrest, economic downturn and unclear political temperatures that led people immigrating to the United States.
Fidel Castro in 1959 led a revolution known as the Cuban Revolution that led to massive immigration into the United States, as Cuba aligned itself to communism. Operation Peter Plan led to Cuban children being educated in United States. Cuban Americans have maintained their national identity, it was noted that identity is shaped by social, political, ideological and differences in generations. Cuban American identity is part of the larger group of the United States multicultural society. It is documented that majority of the Cuban immigrants in the United States dated back to two decades in 1959, with United States being the choice of the political, economic and intellectual among the elites. It is argued that the historical development of the Cuban American people in the United States reflected on the Cuban ethnic identity.
Puerto Ricans
Puerto Rican Americans are commonly referred to as the Stateside Puerto Ricans; these are citizens of the United States with an origin of Puerto Rico. History indicated that since 1952, Puerto Rico was known under the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which was part of the United States. Jones-Shafroth Act in 1917 gave some of the Puerto Ricans the citizenship of the United States.
Surveys have shown that majority...
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