"Mexican" American Integration Into America

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A unique study on America's largest immigrant and illegal immigrant group!


Mexican American integration slow, education stalled, study finds / UCLA Newsroom

"The study contains some encouraging findings, but many more are troubling," said Telles, a UCLA professor of sociology.

It found little assimilation among Mexican Americans, even those who had lived in the United States for several generations.

were surprised to find that the third and fourth generation in this current study had not achieved more gains, particularly in the educational arena.

Such are the findings from the most comprehensive sociological report ever produced on the integration of Mexican Americans. The UCLA study, released today in a Russell Sage Foundation book titled "Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race," concludes that, unlike the descendants of European immigrants to the United States, Mexican Americans have not fully integrated by the third and fourth generation. The research spans a period of nearly 40 years.

Most marry other Hispanics and think of themselves as "Mexican" or "Mexican American."

Third- and fourth-generation Mexican Americans supported less restrictive immigration policies than the general population and generally supported bilingual education and affirmative action.

Positives:

by the second generation, nearly all Mexican Americans achieve English proficiency."

All Mexican Americans were English-proficient by the second generation. Spanish proficiency declined from the first to the fourth generation, showing that the loss of Spanish was inevitable. However, Spanish declined only gradually, and approximately 36 percent of the fourth generation spoke Spanish fluently.

In the 1996 presidential election, 93 percent of first-generation Mexican Americans voted Democratic. The percentage of Democratic voters declined in each subsequent generation. By the fourth generation, 74 percent voted Democratic.

 

[Angelhair]

This is due to the USA and the liberals plus the PC crap whereby they try to appease ALL of those who come in from foreign countries. They particulary try to appease the latinos being that they are the majority of the 'fence jumpers'. This mentality does nothing but keep this new generation of latinos 'barefoot and pregnant'. A national tragedy.