When i read this article "Mexican Americans and Immigrants Incorporation", by Edward E. Telles, i notice that there are some similar issues today with Mexican Americans that are still going on today. Like the article said, Mexican Americans end up living in big groups of family in one house hold because they don't often have education and cant afford their own homes. They also end up having a lot of children and living as a big family. They end up marrying someone that is from another group, race, nationality, or different religion because of the low education Mexican Americans have. What i learn from reading this article was that Mexican Americans have slow rates on learning a new language, religion, intermarriage, and residential integration. They have the lowest percent in graduating from high schools. Having no educations leads them to work for less money and work more harder.
This article talks about immigrants in general. How today's immigrants are mostly from Latin America and Asia. They have less opportunities because they have no background skills or educational. But this article is mostly based on Mexican American because of there higher numbers of immigrants in the U.S. Most immigrants have disadvantages coming to the United States because they dont know English, dont have identities and cant live on their own. I could relate this to some of the chapters i read from sociology class because Mexican Americans are stigmatized, meaning they are consider to be deviant without actually doing anything. And also with race, these are people living in poverty that are not neccessarily resigned to their situation, they have disadvantages that are impossible to over come like.
1. Poor education
2. Living with no health insurance
3. Lower income
4. No food or shelter and clothing
way off
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