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Week 9 Final Checkpoint Jackie Carter Eth 125 April 7, 2011 Christy Boyer Week 9 Final Checkpoint * What information about race and ethnicity in the United States has helped you better understand or relate to specific minority groups' Learning about the different races and ethnicities that are living in the United States has helped me to understand what affects stereotyping and discrimination has had on them. Many Americans use the word Hispanic to describe a racial group. This is wrong. The U.S. Census Bureau (n.d.) website the word Hispanic refers to those people who classify themselves in one of the other Spanish, Hispanic, and Latino listed on the Census questionnaire. Latino pertains to the cultures or countries that make up Latin America where as Hispanic describes the language or culture that once belonged to the Spanish Colonies. You can be Latino if you came from a Latin American country but do not speak the Spanish language. * Have you learned something new about your own cultural history' I already knew where my ancestors were from and how they made their living after coming to the United States after I put together a family tree a few years ago. I knew that my ancestors came from Poland and that polish immigrants faced a lot of discrimination further north. I did not know that they had also faced discrimination in Texas too. * Trends in immigration will continue to shape the face of the United States. What will this face look like in the year 2050' According to a report done by CBSNEWS the Asian and Hispanic population is going to grow at an explosive rate. It is projected that the Asian population will more than triple to 33 million, while Hispanics will see an increase to 102.6 million, roughly one-fourth of the population (Cosgrove-Mather 2004). With the current rate of illegal immigration and the infiltration of radical fundamentalists, the constitution will no longer be consider our rule of law as these groups will have invaded our political and social systems. * How might the country best prepare for the changing race and ethnicity of its current and future citizens' I don’t really know how much more current we can get. For the first time in the history of the United States a Black man has been elected to the highest, most powerful position there is, the Presidency. For all the progress that has been made to fight discrimination, there are groups that still want to keep us segregated. If there is to be any change for our future citizen’s then our policies regarding illegal immigration need to be enforced. If immigrants come here then they should expect to follow our laws. There should be no more political correctness or affirmitive action. A person should not be entitled to anything simply because they are the minority. America is the land of opportunity not the land of entitlement. References U.S. Census Bureau. (n.d.). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_RHI725200.htm Cosgrove-Mather, B. (2004). Americs'a face is changing: By 2050, minority groups are expected to be 49.9% of population. [Electronic Version]. Retrieved April 7, 2011 from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/17/national/main607022.shtml