part of a new culture, which is here the American culture. They want to preserve their own identity, defined by their Hispanic social and cultural background, rather than see their culture melted with other cultural influences.Many Hispanics have, very likely because of the assimilation process, problems with fitting in in the American culture. Is this a lack of assimilation? Do they need to get forced into the American culture? Or should they keep their own culture? Has the assimilation gone too far? Maybe it's not a lack of assimilation at all, maybe it's just gone too far, and they should think more about adaption rather than assimilation? This last sentence that's written is by the way the slogan for the Puerto Ricans in New York; "Adaption yes, assimilation no". As mentioned earlier, the Puerto Ricans came from the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico after America took it as their territory. They were poor, and many moved to New York city hoping to earn more money there. In New York Hispanics have got very little political influence, and they are trying to get people more active politically with their slogan. The Hispanics are, unfortunately, not always welcomed the same way as other immigrants, forexample those who came from Europe. When they moved to the USA, they were taken good care of, and helped to become a part of the American society. The Hispanics were not helped the same way. They are often very poor, and many live in parts of big cities together with thousands of other poor Hispanic Americans. Searching on the internet, I have found facts (I can not be sure, but I assume that they are correct) showing that Hispanic Americans have problems fitting in in the American society: Hispanis youths are most likely to abandom the classroom. Their dropout rate is 29,4 percent. Yet the statistics also show that the dropout rate for secondgeneration Hispanic students is higher than for first generation youths, suggesting that assimilati...
