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This 3 page paper provides demographic data for this population and comments on stratification, pluralism, assimilation, and discrimination, among other things. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of 28 percent per year (U.S. Census Bureau, 2008). Generally, persons from Latin America, Mexico, and Spain are grouped under the category of Hispanics but there are very distinct subgroups
in this category. Most, but not all, can speak Spanish. Hispanic Americans account for the majority population in terms of ethnicities in this country. They are still a majority
in terms of the entire population, though. Hispanics have been in the United States since its founding. Spaniards, after all, did explore and land here, such as Ponce
de Leon who landed in Florida in the early 1500s. Other Spanish explorers reached what is now the middle of America in that same century all the way to Arizona.
What is important here is the fact that Hispanics, mostly from Spain settled in the U.S. long before Europeans. Most Mexicans live in the Southwest while most of the
Cubans live in the Southeast. The Northeast is host to most of the Puerto Ricans and Dominicans and the rest are spread around the country (U.S. Census Bureau, 2008). The
population is stratified in terms of where each of the more than two dozen groups in the Hispanic population have chosen to settle. For the most part, Hispanics have assimilated
into the countrys population. There is a discrepancy in earnings between the more than two dozen nationalities that are incorporated into the Hispanic American population. On average, Cubans earn
the most money and Mexicans earn the least. There are more Cubans in professional and managerial positions than any other group in this population. Poverty is highest among Dominicans and
lowest among South Americans. There are groups that hate Hispanics or they hate specific groups within the Hispanic population. For instance, there is an Anti-Mexican sentiment that is very
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