Latino culture
...e several other countries represented in the Latino culture. El Salvador, Equador, and Brazil are a few of them (Anderson & Collins, p. 252). Mexican Americans face a great deal of prejudice in our world today. The negative public stereotypes of Mexican Americans as lazy, dirty, sneaky and unruly have been reinforced over the years by the popular media, which often depicts Mexican American men as thieves and Mexican American women as prostitutes. Mexican Americans often have difficulty getting jobs because of these stereotypes and because employers worry about whether they are legal residents, even though the vast majority of Mexicans in this country are legal. Unemployment and permanent low-wage job employment are common problems for Mexican Americans. They have also often been blamed for their own poverty and for the economic troubles of this country because of the stereotypes (Anderson & Collins, p. 253). Throughout the history of relations with the United States, Puerto Ricans have often been negatively stereotyped as lazy and criminal. Gang violence and drug use by Puerto Ricans is often highlighted or exaggerated in popular media. Based on the color of their skin, Puerto Ricans also often face racism on the in America that they do not often encounter on their home island. While the skin tone of Puerto Ricans ranges greatly, most Americans perceive Puerto Ricans as either black or white (Habell-Pallan, pp. 30-31). In America, Puerto Ricans have faced discrimination in housing, employment and educational opportunities, and those who have darker skin have struggled the most. Puerto Ricans who migrated to America settled in New York City, so that at one time NYC accounted for three-fourths of all Puerto Rican migrants. Today, Puerto Ricans are spread out in all 50 states but still tend to live in urban areas (Anderson & Collins, p. 253). While many Puerto Ricans came to the America prepared with job skills, most were recruited for low-wage, low-skill jobs and remain in these positions today. Today, Puerto Ricans are only half as likely as Anglo Americans to hold managerial or professional positions. Puerto Ricans have also consistently had one of the highest unemployment rates among all other ethnic groups in the U.S., and continue to be one of the poorest groups in the U.S (Anderson & Collins, p. 253-254). Puerto Rican youth often feel left out in American schools and therefore have a high rate of school dropouts. The majority of migrants from Cuba have come to the United States because they were fleeing political and economic turmoil. Early immigrants and refugees tended to be wealthy, educated and light-skinned, and were openly welcomed to the U.S. Later groups of immigrants were dark-skinned and uneducated, and these gr...