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Class Spanish Section 6A

Mrs. M. Casanas

04/28/2017

** The Impact of Hispanics as the Largest Minority in the United States **

The Hispanic culture is the largest growing minority in the United States. There are many different smaller groups that make up the big group that is Hispanic. Some of these groups are Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Colombian, and Dominican just to name a few. According to the United States Census Bureau as of 2015 there were 56.6 million Hispanics in the United States, “making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or racial minority. Hispanics constituted 17.6 percent of the nation’s total population.” Between 2014 and 2015 2.5 million people were added to the United States population, do you know how many of those people were Hispanic? 1.2 million, that’s almost half of the added population! But, what has this huge group brought to the United States?(Bureau US Cenus). Many people don’t realize or don’t know that Hispanics helped shape the culture of the United States. Some of the main roots of the Hispanic culture are from St Augustine and New Mexico. They were there before the English and the pilgrims. So long before America was established the Hispanic culture was already established in what would much later become the United States. Those early Hispanics helped the government back then and helped create the United States when it first began by bringing together other Hispanics from other countries such as Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Millions of Hispanics helped fight in wars that helped America like the War of Independence, the Civil War, and World War Two. They also helped them fight in the American Revolutionary war and then went to help create borders and some of the most important deals and places in the history of the United States. “What mainstream Americans have failed to realize is that Hispanics have played and will continue to play a crucial role in our nation. Hispanics have contributed to every avenue of American life since the inception of this country” (Balkaran, Stephen). Something else, the money that we all have, need, and beg for if we want to buy something, did you know that it was influenced Spanish dollar? The Spanish dollar what was being used for trade throughout the whole entire world. The United States noticed this and they decided to create their own dollar, they created the United States dollar which is very similar to the Spanish one, the one that Hispanic people created. “It served as a model for currencies ranging from the U.S. dollar to the Chinese yuan,” USA today said this about the Spanish dollar. With the invention of the U.S. dollar thanks to Hispanics it helped improve our whole entire economy. Even the dollar sign comes from Hispanics. This just adds to the list of things that Hispanics, which are still the largest and fastest growing minority group in the United States have contributed.(Planas Roque). Today, the Hispanic group continues to grow throughout the whole entire United States. “Hispanics are fast becoming the new foundation of our country’s economic, political and social-cultural power and based on their promise, no other immigrant group in the history of our great nation has this potential.” According to the United Stated Census Bureau the Hispanic population will reach 119 million by 2060 and make up 29 percent of the United States population. This means that Hispanics will keep helping the US grow and become better as the biggest group. The Hispanic community won’t ever just go away; they will always be there helping to make a difference.(Usatoday). “America must make the first move to acknowledge and respect the contributions of Hispanics in every aspect of our society.” So since the beginning of the United States Hispanics have helped create laws, landmarks, money, and the United Stated itself. They’ve also spread their culture all over the United States. Could you imagine what the United States would be like if Hispanics wouldn’t have helped? I think it would have been crazy in the beginning because Hispanics were kind of the leaders in the whole creation of the United States. The people that came to America looked up to them for advice on how to create this whole new nation. So in conclusion, I think we should all thank Hispanics for everything that they’ve done and continue to do for our country.(Balkaran, Stephen). Works Cited: Balkaran, Stephen. "Hispanic Heritage Month: How Hispanics Are Defining and Redefining America." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 19 Sept. 2014. Web. 28 Apr. 2017.< [] >. Bureau, US Census. "Newsroom." FFF: Hispanic Heritage Month 2016. N.p., 12 Oct. 2016. Web. 28 Apr. 2017.< [] >. Usatoday. "Column: Hispanic Heritage Runs Deep in the USA." USA Today. Gannett Satellite Information Network, 11 Oct. 2012. Web. 28 Apr. 2017.< [] >. Planas, Roque. "11 Latino Contributions To U.S. History (SLIDESHOW)." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 04 July 2013. Web. 28 Apr. 2017.< [] >.
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