Theory of Modern Racism The Hispanic Challenge
... Huntington, in his article “The Hispanic Challenge,” Hispanics are. ... The Challenges to America’s National Identity,” Huntington writes that the new war is between the United States white majority and its burgeoning Hispanic population. ... Hispanic immigrants keep their own language and do not try to learn English when this one has been the official language from the beginning of the United States. ... In 2002, a survey by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation found out that only 7 percent of the immigrant generations relied on Spanish as their primary language at home (Contreras, 2004). ... “The transition from Spanish to English is virtually complete in one generation,” says Pew Hispanic Center director Roberto Suro, “Hispanics are undergoing a powerful process of change no less than anyone else who has come to these shores” (Contreras, 2004).