and become to the largest minority groups in the United States.1.4 Mexico and its populationBecause of the many different Hispanic subgroups I will just concentrate on the largest subgroup: the Mexican one. Mexico is a country in North America and it borders on the United States in the north, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea in the east and Guatemala as well as Beliz in the southeast. Mexico and its territory that includes beside of Mexico a lot of islands in front of the coast cover an area of approximately 1 964 382 km. Its capital is known as Mexico-City (cf. www.britannica.com ). Mexicans population consists of three maingroups: the ones of Spanish origin, the others of Native origin and the last group of Mestizos both Spanish and Native origin. The last group predominates the Mexican society with 55%. The share of Natives amounts to 30% and the white population just makes up 15% (cf. www.hausaufgaben.de ). It is supposed that the total population of Mexico runs up to approximately 98.6 millions. That means for Mexicos population density that 50 inhabitants live on a square kilometre. Through Spanish influence about 90% of the Mexican population are Roman Catholic.1.5 The Mexican immigrationAccording to Michael D. Rodriguez ( students.depaul.edu) Mexican immigration can be divided in different phases. But despite of these different phases of immigration legal or illegal the reasons have been always the same. All Mexican immigrants came first of all in search for a better life than their homeland Mexico could offer. Despite of Mexicans glut of mineral resources it has just a limited amount of agricultural land and a rapidly growing population. And that is also why low lilving standards are widespread in Mexican society. In hope to change poverty and oppression for economic security and liberty a vast number of Mexicans leave their homeland since the economic situation and political oppression are the factors they have had...
