In the U.S., immigrants from Spanish-speaking Latin American countries seem to have problems when identified as "Latino" or "Hispanic", despite forty years ago that both terms were integrated into the American legal system.According to a study by the Pew Hispanic Center, the majority (51%) prefer to be defined by the country of origin of their families compared with 24% using ethnic labels with which it seeks to globalize statistically to the community.Related Content
Awakening U.S. housing sector Latin face isTime: the Latino vote will decide the U.S. presidentLatinos are responsible for the growth of the workforce in the U.S.In Pew's work, entitled "When the labels do not match: Hispanic and vision of identity", said most consider that this classification does not address the extent of a community culture that has different origins.Only the language, some religious beliefs and political preferences are the glue that coheres a community for the diversity of countries and races is difficult to categorize.Diverse communityIn 1976 the U.S. Congress at the behest of immigrant groups, adopted a law mandating that record the statistical information of residents of Latino and other Spanish speaking countries.A year later, a directive from the Office of Budget Management Congress had mandated the use of the term "Hispanic" or "Latino" to describe the community in data collection procedures of the federal government.Hispanic Trends51% were identified by their country of origin24% use the term Hispanic or Latino51% have no preference among Hispanic or Latino69% do not believe there is a common Hispanic culture47% are not considered "typical Americans"87% believe it is necessary to learn English95% considered it important to speak SpanishSource: Pew Research CenterHowever, the Pew study indicates that only 25% of respondents feel identified with the terms now widely used by the U.S. Census, government offices and even private companies.The rest prefer to use the country of origin of their families to describe themselves as Mexican Americans in California, Florida Cuban Americans or Puerto Ricans or Dominicans in New York.The main reason: 69% of respondents say that the 50 million Latinos are estimated to live in the U.S. have no common culture."The result of the study reflects the diversity of Latinos in the U.S." BBC World said Mark Lopez, associate director of the Pew Hispanic Center."A lot of Latinos do not think they have a common culture because it is a community with many ways with many diverse with many aspects and so it is difficult to describe with a name or a culture."Besides Lopez estimated that collaborates with the rejection of criminalization that are "names used by an idea that came from the U.S. government Many do not like to use it."Classification problemsBut even taken on their individual backgrounds, Hispanics are a large group, as evidenced by the existence of large communities of Asian, African, European or Arab in several of these countries.The Pew study indicates that 51% of respondents have problems categorized in the list of breeds that have census forms and respond as "other race", while 36% is defined as white and 3% as black."We are not a race, as he insists on qualifying in the U.S. government, but an ethnic group that represents a culture," he told BBC Julian Teixeira, director of communications for the National Council of La Raza, the largest organization of defense rights of Hispanic AmericansTexeira acknowledged that the labels "are useful because we need a term to identify the community that lives in this country" and that "it is the easiest way to describe a group" but warns that "it is only a screening tool."The Latino VoteThe language unifies
Research by the Pew Hispanic Center reflects the importance of the Castilian language to unite this community.Research indicates that 76% fluent in Spanish, that 38% are bilingual and 24% prefer English.But if you can not speak of a Hispanic community where many of its members are not recognized as such, it makes sense then to talk about a Latino vote?. The question may be crucial in designing strategies for the upcoming presidential elections November in the United States.Apparently the political preferences are one of the few common points, and that Latinos overwhelmingly support the Democrats regardless of the country in which they originate.The exception is Florida Cubans, who lean more toward the Republicans, although even in this group appears to have significant generational differences as younger people become more liberal."There may be a Latino vote, because in 2008 two in three voted for Obama and the polls say that now the gap with President Mitt Romney would be greater than he had with McCain," said Mark Lopez, but said he could not say with absolute certainty that can be used that term.Meanwhile for policymakers Hispanic or Latino categories remain useful. The rest must wait for a better classification arises, though I know none of those polled by BBC thinks it is something that is about to happen.
Awakening U.S. housing sector Latin face isTime: the Latino vote will decide the U.S. presidentLatinos are responsible for the growth of the workforce in the U.S.In Pew's work, entitled "When the labels do not match: Hispanic and vision of identity", said most consider that this classification does not address the extent of a community culture that has different origins.Only the language, some religious beliefs and political preferences are the glue that coheres a community for the diversity of countries and races is difficult to categorize.Diverse communityIn 1976 the U.S. Congress at the behest of immigrant groups, adopted a law mandating that record the statistical information of residents of Latino and other Spanish speaking countries.A year later, a directive from the Office of Budget Management Congress had mandated the use of the term "Hispanic" or "Latino" to describe the community in data collection procedures of the federal government.Hispanic Trends51% were identified by their country of origin24% use the term Hispanic or Latino51% have no preference among Hispanic or Latino69% do not believe there is a common Hispanic culture47% are not considered "typical Americans"87% believe it is necessary to learn English95% considered it important to speak SpanishSource: Pew Research CenterHowever, the Pew study indicates that only 25% of respondents feel identified with the terms now widely used by the U.S. Census, government offices and even private companies.The rest prefer to use the country of origin of their families to describe themselves as Mexican Americans in California, Florida Cuban Americans or Puerto Ricans or Dominicans in New York.The main reason: 69% of respondents say that the 50 million Latinos are estimated to live in the U.S. have no common culture."The result of the study reflects the diversity of Latinos in the U.S." BBC World said Mark Lopez, associate director of the Pew Hispanic Center."A lot of Latinos do not think they have a common culture because it is a community with many ways with many diverse with many aspects and so it is difficult to describe with a name or a culture."Besides Lopez estimated that collaborates with the rejection of criminalization that are "names used by an idea that came from the U.S. government Many do not like to use it."Classification problemsBut even taken on their individual backgrounds, Hispanics are a large group, as evidenced by the existence of large communities of Asian, African, European or Arab in several of these countries.The Pew study indicates that 51% of respondents have problems categorized in the list of breeds that have census forms and respond as "other race", while 36% is defined as white and 3% as black."We are not a race, as he insists on qualifying in the U.S. government, but an ethnic group that represents a culture," he told BBC Julian Teixeira, director of communications for the National Council of La Raza, the largest organization of defense rights of Hispanic AmericansTexeira acknowledged that the labels "are useful because we need a term to identify the community that lives in this country" and that "it is the easiest way to describe a group" but warns that "it is only a screening tool."The Latino VoteThe language unifies
Research by the Pew Hispanic Center reflects the importance of the Castilian language to unite this community.Research indicates that 76% fluent in Spanish, that 38% are bilingual and 24% prefer English.But if you can not speak of a Hispanic community where many of its members are not recognized as such, it makes sense then to talk about a Latino vote?. The question may be crucial in designing strategies for the upcoming presidential elections November in the United States.Apparently the political preferences are one of the few common points, and that Latinos overwhelmingly support the Democrats regardless of the country in which they originate.The exception is Florida Cubans, who lean more toward the Republicans, although even in this group appears to have significant generational differences as younger people become more liberal."There may be a Latino vote, because in 2008 two in three voted for Obama and the polls say that now the gap with President Mitt Romney would be greater than he had with McCain," said Mark Lopez, but said he could not say with absolute certainty that can be used that term.Meanwhile for policymakers Hispanic or Latino categories remain useful. The rest must wait for a better classification arises, though I know none of those polled by BBC thinks it is something that is about to happen.
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