The Sociopolitical Challenges Facing the Assimilation and Acculturation of Hispanics in the America’s Multicultural Society

Abstract

The United States of America has always been the country of immigrants; it has received people from different ethnicities. Hispanics have been among those newcomers though their presence in the land has marked a precedent in the American history. At that time many theories has emerged to facilitate immigrants’ inclusion in the US society. The theme of this paper analyzes how researchers often disagree over the incorporation’s theory that better describes Hispanic presence in the United States. They believe that all immigrants ought to leave behind all traits of their culture and change toward the culture of the mainstream, while Hispanics’ continued attachment to their culture of heritage has caused troubles, and doubts have appeared about their acculturation in the country. Such status is well analyzed in the present dissertation through specific statistics that express Hispanics’ social and political engagement. For the first domain, the work clarifies how their educational, intermarriage, and cultural enclaves’ position stand in front of Latinos intergradations in the host society reinforcing by that their acculturation. For the second domain, this research evaluates Hispanics’ inclusion in the political life of the United States and which in part strengthen their assimilation. The role that has been performed by this minority in the US elections, precisely in both presidential elections; 2008 and 2012, has revealed other facts about Hispanics assimilation in addition to the impact they can experience over politics allowing them either to transform or to dominate the US day to day life.