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Linguistic Study

Mexican Americans:

Social behavior of Mexican Americans shows that the group simply wants what every immigrant group wants when coming to this country searching for the “American Dream”. James Adams describes “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement….” and “It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position” (1931).

Economically, Mexican Americans are pushing for fair pay. This

plays out most predominately in the Mexican American Civil Rights

movement as discussed earlier with Cesar Chavez. (Mendoza, V.

2000). Fair pay, benefits and adequate wages are still an issue for

Mexican Americans.

Family for Mexican American seems to focus on the Grandparents,

especially the Grandmothers, they appear to be the staple of the

family according to González-Clements, A. in Mexican American

traditions in Nebraska, “Grandmothers, those special women who held

them and fed them and healed them, grandmothers who knew the

remedies, the stories, the crafts, the foods, and the language that

some of us have forgotten.” American Christmas traditions have been

adopted, in place of their traditions such as Gonzalez-Clements, A.

“The traditional Mexican posada, a house-to-house celebration of song

and food that replicates Joseph and Mary's search for shelter on

Christmas Eve…”

Puerto Ricans

The Puerto Ricans language is Spanish. According to Tara- Ivette,

O. in his essay on Puerto Rican Migration and the Puerto Rican

Political Experience in the United States; Puerto Ricans began in what

was known as Class Politics, where no matter what ethnicity...