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A dominating social group, especially in the San Diego area, is the Latino/a American community. Many Latino/a Americans or Hispanics came from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South or Central America, or other Spanish regions either with their families or by their ancestors. Many people in this social group have done great things for America, some of those people include Jorge Ramos, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro and Representative Joaquin Castro, Ellen Ocha, Cesar Chavez, and Antonia C. Novello, along with many more. Personally, I don’t share any experiences with this social group but one of my friends went on to explain to me that she is seen as being in a low-income family. This was due to her Hispanic background with both of her parents. By learning this about her it lead me to realize that other Latino/a Americans or Hispanics probably deal with this stereotype and other stereotypes that can affect them negatively as well as how they are seen in society.
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One of the main leader and role model in the Latino/a American community is Cesar Chavez. Chavez growing up was exposed to the “injustice and hardships” of working as an immigrant farmer. He later started to form a movement dedicated towards the farmworkers that are like him and his family when he was growing up. His main purpose was to overcome the “poverty, discrimination and powerlessness” that came along with him and his mostly Hispanic supporter, in a way that was nonviolent. By doing this the union had no choice but to develop the California farm labor law. Leaving Cesar to have made a big impact for Hispanics everywhere and accomplishing it with nonviolence.
Individuals in this collection are different from each other because like anyone else they have their own developed opinions on topics and not letting their Hispanic background determine what they “should” think. Latino/a Americans face challenges, like getting equal treatment in the workplace and receiving higher education, says The Huff Post when referring to a report done by The American Bar Association’s Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights and Responsibilities. Among the challenges, successions from Latino/a Americans are how much they contribute to the American economy. A majority of it coming from the small businesses that they create.
A challenge that affects Hispanics individually that may be hard for others to comprehend is that like my friend, they can walk into a store and be looked at with more percussion than a white person because they are stereotyped as having lower incomes, thus making them more eligible to steal. Even though in many cases that is not the case. Image having to be more cautious with what you touch because you could be accused of trying to steal it, even if you had no intention of doing so. Another assumption that Hispanics get is that they don’t have a high educational background or that they don’t speak English very well even though most Hispanics see English as a first language. These stereotypes affect them negatively because it leaves the people that believe them to not take them as seriously because they think that they lack the knowledge.
As a community, we can learn to inherit and accept their traditions and understand their hardships that they deal with on a day to day bases to show that they are not correct. Something that you should do to help is not listening to stereotypes and shutting down or correcting people trying to spread stereotypes about the Hispanic or Latino/a American social group to give them justice to the identity they deserve.
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