While driving through your typical middle class neighborhood, think about the typical family that one might see. More often than not, those families are not that of the Hispanic background in this vision. Most in part due to the way that they have been portrayed in the society we live today; Hispanic Americans are thought to be one of the lowest classes of the American citizen. We forget all the things that the Hispanic community has done for our country, and the impact that they make on the life we have as a nation through all of their struggle throughout the years. Currently, there are over fifty-five million Hispanic Americans living in the country today, making the Hispanic community the largest of all the minority groups in the country. …show more content…
Hispanic Americans are not foreigners to this country, they even have closer ties to America than those with typical European backgrounds. Even before the historic vote of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the courts ruled it unconstitutional to segregate students of Mexican heritage into schools. The plaintiff, Sylvia Mendez, sued after being turned away from a “whites only” public school in California. This in turn, paved the way for the vote of Brown v. Board of Education that led all schools in the country to become integrated. The history that Hispanic community represents the American dream have many becoming citizens in the United States to escape the horrible poverty that their home country put them in. They also have come into the country for a greater educational opportunity for themselves and the future generations of their family. They also come into the country to escape political persecution that may be plaguing their home country. For example, there was an influx of Cuban people during Fidel Castro’s dictatorship. These situations are not ideal for raising the families of these people and they escape to America to be able to provide a better livelihood for themselves and the people that they love, just like all ethnicities