Becoming American Latino Paradox

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Wealth of an individual, and their health are two contracting factors in America. Usually if an individual has more wealth they are considered to be healthier. However for the Mexican Americans, this contradicting theory seems to disappear. In the film Becoming American, researchers discovered that immigrant Latinos have the best health, even though they are considered one of the poorest, socially marginalized population. Latino’s are also considered to have the best health among one of the wealthiest communities, which enables them to the Latino paradox. The Latino paradox is described as Latino immigrates obtaining high amount of stress rates while trying to adapt to the U.S. However even under these stressful conditions they still showed