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I get the impression that JeffSanDimas is the kind of guy that tells racist jokes to his friends, ignorant of the fact they belong to the race he's making fun of.
Just like a lot of the 2nd and 3rd generation Asians I know, few know much of the language and few know can truly cook as good as their grandparents might have. Some might hang on longer in areas with large enclaves(like is the case with Latino areas), but all the same I've met plenty of 3rd or 4th generation Mexican-Americans from Texas and California who admit they can't speak much Spanish at all this point.
Yeah, definitely agreed. When my East Coast Asian friends (Filipino, Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, etc.) visit me in LA, they're pretty weirded out by the fact that a huge chunk of Asians here in California are pretty Americanized compared to the Asians in their areas. Of course it's different nowadays because there are more 2nd and 3rd generation Americans now that there were before, but it's becoming noticeable how "mainstream" a lot of us are becoming.
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley here in LA. I was rummaging through my old stuff at my parent's place and found my yearbook from elementary school, (I went to a Magnet School, so the demographics were a bit skewed) and realized how diverse my class was. Keep in mind, this was the mid-late 1990s, when most of us were the children of those who immigrated in the 1980s. If one would believe the trolling that has been stated in the past few pages, you wouldn't believe that a good 30% of my class was Hispanic. Most of them ended up going to really good undergraduate universities, and some ended up going to graduate school (and not for some Humanities or Social Science degree either).
Now that we're all in our mid-20s, most of us aren't defined solely by the ethno-cultural background we came from, but by other interests and what we ended up doing for a living.
That's why whenever I read this whole "sky is falling" stuff online, it really doesn't match what I see in the real world. Then again, I have friends off the internet and talk to people, instead of sitting in my room and stewing in hatred while trolling anonymously on the internet.
NEW Mexico, ever heard of it? It may be in the US, but it really is Mexico in every facet of social and cultural life. Texas and CA not even close by a long shot.
NEW Mexico, ever heard of it? It may be in the US, but it really is Mexico in every facet of social and cultural life. Texas and CA not even close by a long shot.
California. Los Angeles has a huge influence on Chicano culture everywhere and Latinos are a majority in California. They're nowhere close to being a majority in Texas
California. Los Angeles has a huge influence on Chicano culture everywhere and Latinos are a majority in California. They're nowhere close to being a majority in Texas
What? Latinos are not the majority in California. And what percentage of Texas do you think is Latino?
What? Latinos are not the majority in California. And what percentage of Texas do you think is Latino?
Hispanics are actually indeed the biggest ethnic group in California.
Hispanic(not including undocumented immigrants)-38.8 %
White-38.5 %
Asian-14.9%
Black-6.5%
Although they are pretty neck and neck Hispanics, mainly Mexicans, are the number one ethnic group in the sate. Mexican culture is extremely prevalent in LA county, and especially in parts of LA such as East Los Angeles and Westlake.
Los Angeles
Hispanic- 48.5%
White- 28.7%
Asian- 11.3%
Black-9.6%
While Texas has a big Mexican population, it also has a huge "southern" feel to the state that almost overrides the Hispanic cultural feel in the state at large. I definitly think California is number one in this regard.
Is there a part of California that is comparable to the Rio Grande Valley?
No.
The closest would be Imperial County in Southern California but it only has 175,000 people. Not really comparable to the 4 county Rio Grande Valley area with 1.35 million people in a uniformly cohesive region. One is an actual population center solely derived of Latino people, whereas the other is a more rural county with a smalltown in Calexico, which is an extension of Mexicali's urban area across the border from it. Imperial County, CA is more comparable to Laredo, TX or Del Rio, TX than the Rio Grande Valley.
In California, Latinos tend to either integrate into the major cities there which have well more than just Latino groups in them or remain in agricultural regions of the Central Valley (agricultural surroundings of Fresno, Stockton, Merced, Modesto, Sacramento, Visalia, so on). California doesn't have major population centers with more than 1 million people like El Paso or Rio Grande Valley that are almost exclusively all Latino. In Texas, Latinos largely only live in population centers, either ones where they integrate in with other groups (whites, blacks, Asians; in the TX Triangle region) or ones they solely have to themselves (I.E. El Paso, Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Del Rio), not so much the rural areas, which are still mostly just white-black places, especially in East TX.
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