As our nation changes its path and its views towards society, we hear more about minority issues and their relationship to today's problems within society. A group that is often brought up regarding social problems is the Hispanic race. For most Americans, the labeling of Hispanics as a minority group implies the birth a group of newcomers, recently arriving in this country, and bringing with them their cultural flavor and conflicts. In fact, the Hispanic …showed first 75 words of 1576 total…

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