What does Hispanic history have to do with the colonization of the U.S. ?
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not too much......some are trying to justify illegal immigration with history.......-----it is funny how history repeats itself!!!!
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The term "native American" is sometimes used to refer to the people who were living in the land now called North America when Europeans arrived there in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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It was under spanish domination (not mexican) for 3 centuries, until 1898. Therefore the spanish names and surnames.
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Little known fact, all hispanics originally resided in present day Akron Ohio, but they all took off to mexico and central america on vacation, and that's right about the time the europeans moved in started squatting, and then claimed Akron for themselves.
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The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, Jesuits, Augustinians, and Dominicans to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives. Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain, consisting of Mexico and portions of what today are the Southwestern United States) in order to facilitate colonization of these lands. In 1533, at the request of Hernán Cortés, Carlos V sent the first Franciscan monks with orders to establish a series of installations throughout the country.
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This is the USA.   English is the primary language, the second is decided by the country of origin.   No one made the current Hispanic immigrants come to the US.  They came for the opportunities as did people from cultures around the world.  America is made up of hundreds of nationalities so why should the Hispanic culture think they are the primary language.   If they don't like what they "see", then go home to the country they so quickly escaped.
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Both continents of the Americas were fully populated by Native Americans in 1492.  Columbus was only the first Spaniard to find the New World.  The Vikings had settled for a short time in Newfoundland in the 11th century.
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Check your history moron all this belonged to Spain and Mexico at one time so Spanish was spoken here long before you were a wet spot.
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Lack of Education - Possible. People might think Mexicans rule the Hispanic world!\n\nDescrimination - Again, possible. There are some pretty bad rumors out there about Mexicans.\n\nGeneralization - A lot of Hispanics I know are Mexican. Maybe they assumed most every Hispanic person is Mexican.
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At that time Hispanics were considered white.  The only separate divisions were black or Japanese (served in Europe only).\n\nDon't bother looking any more because you won't find an answer.  The lack of an Answer IS your answer....
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Hi Lana, there should be something on the subject within these links.\n\nSocial Studies\n\nAmerica began as colonies of England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. The story of America as a nation must begin with the colonization of the East Coast.\n\nhttp://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/colonialtimes.htm\n\nJamestown and how America started.\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/jt/jt.htm\n\nhttp://cvesd.k12.ca.us/finney/journey/___thebeginning.html\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/ca_intro.htm\n\nhttp://www.apva.org/history/\n\nhttp://www.academicinfo.net/usearlycolonial.html\n\n Although there were other Europeans who had visited and even tried to establish colonies on the eastern coast of the New World, the British were the first to establish a permanent colony. They named their fort Jamestown.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/kirk/jamestown.htm\n\nThe American Colonies\n\nThe history of the original 13 colonies is a tangled tale indeed. There are many ways to view the events and, in hind sight, it is easy to think you understand. But no one knew where they were headed at the time and it could have ended up very different.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/history.htm#colonial\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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This is just a guess. You may try with the Mexican government as many of the Spanish came there from Mexico and not directly from Spain.
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Nine months after Columbus landed. Hispanics are a mix between Spaniard and Indian.
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Mexican means you just moved here from mexico. Hispanic means you come from mexican origin.
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I read someone say that Puerto Ricans were of Spanish decent but lets not forget that there are people of African ancestry as well, so it should not be labeled as simply  a Spanish/Latin commonwealth.
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Hispanics constitute the largest minority group in the United States. As of July 1, 2004, Hispanics accounted for 14.1 % of the population, around 41.3 million people. Hispanic growth rate over the July 1, 2003 to July 1, 2004 period was of 3.6 % - higher than any other ethnic group in the United States, and in fact more than three times the rate of the nation's total population (at 1.0 %). The projected Hispanic population of the United States for July 1, 2050, is of 102.6 million people. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 24% of the nation’s total population on that date. [2]\n\nOf the nation's total Hispanic population, 49% lives in California or Texas. Not counting Puerto Rico — which is a territorial possession of the United States — New Mexico is the state with the highest proportion of Hispanics, where 43% is of Hispanic-origin. The proportion of Hispanics in the states of California and Texas exceed 35% each.\n\nThe Hispanic population of Los Angeles County, California--numbering over 4.6 million--is the largest of any county in the nation. [3] Meanwhile, for the 2000 to 2004 period, Lee County, Florida had the fastest growth rate in Hispanic population of any other county in the United States. [4]\n\nSome 64% of the nation's Hispanic population are of Mexican or Mexican-American background. Another approximately 10% are of Puerto Rican background, with about 3% each of Cuban, Salvadoran and Dominican origins. The remainder are of some other Central American, South American or other Hispanic or Latino origins. [5]\n\nThe overwhelming majority of Hispanics of Mexican/Mexican-American origin are concentrated in the Southwestern United States, primarily California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The majority of the Hispanic population in the Southeastern United States, concentrated in Florida, are of Cuban origin. The Hispanic population in the Northeastern United States, concentrated in New York and New Jersey, is composed mostly of Puerto Ricans, however, the Dominican population has risen considerably in the last decade, especially in proportion to that region's Hispanic population. The remainder of other Hispanics, composed of various Central American and South American origins, may be found throughout the country, though South Americans tend to concentrate on the East Coast of the United States (joining Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans) and Central Americans on the West Coast of the United States (joining Mexicans/Mexican Americans). There are few immigrants from Spain due to it's economical growth, they do not regard themselves with the term Hispan as used in the United States.
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It's not latin, it's latino, latinos are people that come from south america, and hispanics and people that were born in Spain, I'm mexican, yeah that's right, my blood is 100% Tequila, I'm just kidding, I'm from Ecuador, so that makes me a Latino