The history of the U.S.-Mexican border has played a significant role in the process of inclusion of Mexican Americans into U.S. society. Discuss how borderland history has influenced Mexican-Anglo relations. Discuss what these events had in common and how they affected Anglo-Mexican relations. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service reported over three million Mexican immigrants entering the U.S. between 1981 and 1996. Discuss the impact that this large influx of recent immigrants might have on the existing Mexican American communities in the U.S. Chapter 8 1.
Language is an important element of cultural identity.
Discuss some of these controversies, beginning with the segregation of Spanish speaking children in schools and ending with the English only movement. Although Mexican Americans in general show higher levels of cultural, secondary, primary, and martial assimilation that they did in the past, it seems unlikely that the differences between Mexican Americans and Anglos will disappear. Identify areas in which Mexican Americans are not assimilating and explain why assimilation in those areas is not occurring rapidly. Neither the colonial model nor the immigrant model fits all the facts of Mexican American or the Puerto Rican experience. Discuss each model and tell its advantages and disadvantages for analyzing the present and future realties of either Mexican Americans or Puerto Ricans.