Michael Moore

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Multisource Article
12/06/2016
Hispanic/Latino: Panel Paper

The nations hispanic population totaled 56.6 million as of July 1, 2015, says a U.S. Census
report.

By 2050, the hispanic population of the united states is expected to grow to 29% says the Pew
Research Center.

Americans are more racially and ethnically diverse than in the past, and the U.S. is projected to
be even more diverse in the coming decades. writes DVera Cohn and Andrea Caumont in an
article on Pewresearch.org

Despite this rise in diversity racism remains a major social problem, reports the Associated Press
in an article found on nbcnews.com

Jody Agius Vallejo, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California,
writes in her book Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class, too
frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society.

Consistent with the disparaging stereotype bolstered by Trump, they may be viewed as
dangerous criminals, or low-skilled immigrant workers, even though they are American-born and
economically successful, writes Vallejo.

Vallejo writes in an article for theconversation.com about an upper middle class Latino named
Luis.

Luis had made a hobby of fixing up an old Chevy truck, writes Vallejo.

One day, clad in grease-stained work clothes, Luis decided to take the truck for a test drive
around his affluent neighborhood...his truck broke down. He got out to tinker with the engine. As
he did, the police arrived. The officer claimed to be responding to a call from a neighbor who
anxiously relayed that an unauthorized Mexican immigrant in an old truck was casing the
neighborhood writes Valejo.

Vallejo writes that stories like Luis are typical and these racist conventions are dangerous for
American society because they prevail and unfold in communities and institutions, like schools
and the workplace, that are becoming increasingly racially diverse.

A recent Pew Research poll shows 58 percent of Latinos characterize racism as a significant
problem.

Angel Mendoza, a student at Everest College said he went to a mostly black high school and that
his classmates would bully him about being Latino and would tell him to go back to where he
came from.

Mendoza also said, that students would harass his father, when he would pick him up after
school, because he did not speak English.

I learned to brush it off, but there's always fear, said Mendoza.

Stereotypes have consequences for the mobility of young Latinos, a growing segment of our
population whose integration is critical to the social, political and economic vitality of the United
States, writes Vallejo.

In an economist.com article entitled How To Fire Up America, the author reports that despite the
negative views of Hispanics and Latinos their rising numbers will actually benefit society
because they are statisitcally the youngest imigrants.

America has been granted an extraordinary stroke of luck: a big dose of youth and energy, just
as its global competitors are greying. Making the most of this chance will take pragmatism and
goodwill. Get it right, and a diverse, outward-facing America will have much to teach the
world, reports economist.com.