Mexicans in U.S. Schools

Mexicans in U.S. Schools

Introduction

The paper explains the specific challenges and issues that Mexican students face as English Language Learners in the school in United States. Furthermore, it reveals the impact of cultural identity, discrimination and racism against Mexican students. Moreover, how the teachers should tackle the diversified culture in the schools is discussed in the paper. Discrimination is one of the most serious problems faced by the Mexican students in the American community. In view of the recent studies, seven out of ten Mexicans suffer discrimination from white Americans in schools (Romo & Falbo, 2006). They often face difficulties in terms of language barrier. These abuses are also causes of poor school performance and health problems for children and in some cases can mark them for their future. The discrimination of children is one of the toughest problems facing the Latino parents because they also suffer the issues (Reimers, 2009).

Mexico is increasingly seen more as a nation of immigrants, a society whose fate is linked side to the economy and culture of the United States. The migrants face racist attitudes and discrimination as Mexicans. Today 56% of all U.S. immigrants are Mexicans. One third of them are not even finishing primary school. The institutionalized discrimination against Mexican children and young people with a migration background in the education system has multiple causes, so that measures which affect only the legal level are not sufficient to counter discrimination act sustainably (Gonzalez & Padilla, 2001). The phenomenon of migration of undocumented Mexican and United States has been a constant for over a hundred years.

Background

In the United States centuries has experienced discrimination against Mexicans. This has been dragged down to us and are being developed there laws to end Mexican people living in the United States. The latent discrimination against Mexicans in the United States lasted well into the seventies. During the Vietnam War (as had happened earlier in the Second World War) the percentage of Mexican citizens sent to the front was very high compared to the Anglo population. These statistics created great regret and indignation among the Mexican-origin population and, in August 1970, would lead in organizing demonstrations and mass influx convened by Hispanic associations and would be known as the Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles (Garcia, 2002).

The most effective is to contact people directly and invite them to vote. In a study conducted with hundreds of thousands of Mexicans; direct contact increased the level of voting in more than 10 points. But, there are very few organizations in the U.S. who do this kind of work, which is expensive and difficult, but also very important. What we need is to create a culture of participation in the U.S., as the country has never had. Instead, for much of history, the government has worked to limit access of Latino voters, African Americans, and women (Gonzalez & Padilla, 2001). The economic factor has a decisive aspect of immigration and the American union as the crisis in the ...