Sangha said:
You continue to make the racist mistake of thinking that Latino means "immigrant". Yes, the Latino population is increasing, but that doesn't mean that the population of native born americans is decreasing because, and hold on to your hat, many Latinos are native born americans.
Again, Sangha, I don't really care what you think about it.
The answer is staring you right in the face regardless of whether you want to acknowledge it or not.
There simply aren't enough Latino women having children out there to account for such a massive population increase using "native born" numbers alone.
Most of that number is going to be due to immigrants bolstering the Latino community's numbers, or the first generation children of immigrants.
None of those people count as being a part of an established "native" cultural group. Culturally speaking, they are alien from the American cultural mainstream, and, as my other source pointed out, roughly half of them regard themselves as such.
No, "typical" does not mean mainstream, and neither means that they believe that they don't fit in, which is what you said.
Yes, it most certainly does, on both counts.
Again, Sangha, I don't know who you think you're fooling with all of this B.S. equivocation and semantic quibbling you're trying to pull out of your hindquarters here, but I can assure you that it certainly isn't me or anyone else with a functioning cerebellum. :lol:
And one day it will be their fully assimilated children who will be the major driving force behind Latino culture and Latino population growth
Not for so long as immigration continues to account for roughly 50% of Hispanic population growth rates. :roll:
Again, first (and even second) generation immigrants really can't be said to be from "native" American cultural groups either.
Americanization and assimilation take time;
especially when you're talking about a group which can have a strong tendency to want to isolate itself from outside influences.
if they ever come to form the majority in a given area, it might very well never occur at all. There simply wouldn't be a pressing reason for it.
No, you're talking about both Latinos and immigrants as if they both meant the same thing.
Because, by and large,
they are.
36% of Hispanic Latinos are foreign born, and most of the rest of them are either first or second generation.
Unless they've become so Americanized as to have almost dropped their old ways entirely (which we have already pretty conclusively demonstrated is not the case a lot of the time),
none of those people qualify as belonging to a "native" cultural group.
This isn't a bad thing in and of itself, but it does demonstrate that native cultural groups are in relative decline in comparison to Latino cultural influences.
Latinos are split on whether they see themselves as a typical American. Nearly half (47%) say they are a typical American, while another 47% say they are very different from the typical American. Foreign-born Hispanics are less likely than native-born Hispanics to say they are a typical American—34% versus 66%.
