Ethnic, Military, and Social interactions between Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Ricans, and Americans since the mid-19th century

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Ethnic, Military, and Social interactions between Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Ricans, and Americans since the mid-19th century
Mexicans/Mexican Americans and Cuban/Cuban Americans
United States is characterized with multicultural societies; this is based on the massive immigrants entering the United States from all over the world. Multicultural societies have presented a challenge of defining the National Identity. A number of scholars have argued that America is a nation characterized with immigrants.
The founders of United States were settlers and not immigrants mainly from the British origin. It is argued that British settlers took control of North America, thereby forming a new society; people who moved from all over the world to the United States were later referred to as the immigrants. Some of the immigrants originated from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico. American’s creed over the years has been associated with the American identity. In the sense that American creed defined equality, liberty, representative government, individualism and the aspect of private property ownership.
Settlers in the United States originated from Spanish, British, French and Portuguese among others. Surveys have shown that a good number of United States Hispanics described themselves from their native cultural affiliations. Findings indicated that a Mexican American is actually a citizen of United States with Mexican descent. The national identity for Mexican Americans has advocated for voting rights, against employment discrimination, against educational discrimination, against ethnic discrimination; in the support for social and economic advancement. Mexican Americans has worked closely in protecting and defining the identity of the community. Mexico and United States were involved in a number of factional battles and civil wars in protecting their borders, Texas and California being an example of an area under dis...