Will Racism Ever End?
Through reading history books and watching current news, one can see how racism has been an ongoing issue in the United States. The two articles I read today proved just that, however I believe that racism is not as much of a wide spread problem as it once was. The article “Unknown History of Latino…
How Temporal and Geographical Separation Affects Culture
It is amazing to me how people can have similar ethnic backgrounds, yet can be so diverse on how they view different aspects of their culture. By listening to the zoom discussion, I was able to see how both geographical and temporal separation can have an effect on how latino people grow up and how…
The Increasingly Important Latino Vote
The Latino voting population is growing rapidly in the United States, and throughout the years, it has had an increasing significance on voting outcomes. While going over the statistics presented, the mere growth of eligible voters, as well as the political tendencies of specific ethnic groups struck an interest with me. In the 2018 mid-term…
How Languages Can Show Identity
Both the song “Latino Lingo” by Cypress Hill and the book “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua focus on ideas regarding the importance of languages that the authors speak, and furthermore how these languages shape their identity. In Latino Lingo, I found it interesting how Hill uses a mix of Spanish and…
Spanish Labels
There are many terms that are used in the U.S. to categorize people from Spanish speaking countries, with the difference in many of them being the scope of the people that they describe. This difference in scope can often cause people to mislabel others. Some labels, such as latino and hispanic, have minors difference in…
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
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Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
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Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
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