Hispanic American

there is a flag representing the countries of Hispanic America, its people, history and shared cultural legacy.


Following to last weeks discussions about different ethnic groups in United States, deal to Hispanic groups in this week. About this group, I should hint that, the various Latin American ethnic groups plus the Spanish are typically collectivized as "Hispanics". And "The O.M.B. defines Hispanic or Latino as 'a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."
It is noticeable that, they are changeably labeled Latino American or Hispanic American but these are not synonymous. Some of them who are European decendency prefer to named Hispanic (from Spain and Spanish language) but people from Latin America (including Brazil, Mexico) and not Spain prefer to use the term of "Latino" over "Hispanic"
This ethnos in United States is the largest minority group that The Office of Management and Budget have categorized the American ethnicities as Latino or Hispanic or not Hispanic.
The estimated Hispanic population of the United States for July 1, 2050, is of 102.6 million people. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 24% of the nation’s total population on that date. (American Censuses) So we can consider that this group have and will have a great role in political affaires like Presidency Election as we see in Bush Elected.



George W. Bush has had a significant impact as a former Governor of Texas on the political leanings of Hispanic Americans. Furthermore the Catholic and more conservative social values that many Hispanic Americans share with the conservative element of the American political system impacted Hispanic leaning in his elect.
Many Hispanics, including U.S.-born second and third generation Hispanics, use the Spanish language to varying degrees. The most usual pattern is monolingual Spanish usage among new immigrants or older foreign born Hispanics, complete bilingualism among long settled immigrants and their children, and the use of Spanglish and colloquial Spanish within long established Hispanic communities by the third generation and beyond. Some researcher have proposed that Hispanics were less committed to assimilation than other immigrants. Discrimination, this adherence to the Spanish language which mentioned above and frequents trips to their native countries are other reasons that have been proposed.



Maybe it is interesting to know:
Univision and Telemundo, respectively the first and second largest Spanish-language television networks in the United States, each with affiliates in nearly every major U.S. market, including numerous affiliates internationally.
El Nuevo Herald, a Spanish-language daily newspaper serving the greater Miami, Florida market.