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Title: Cuban Emigres and the American Dream

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: According to Samuel Huntington, Latin Americans are eroding our country's core Anglo-Protestant values. The values, says he, made America great, unified the country, and allowed immigrant upward mobility through assimilation and acculturation. Huntington expresses concern that immigrants from Latin America, now our main newcomers, along with their U.S.-born progeny, are creating another America, culturally and socially distinct. The reason for this, he claims, is that they settle in close proximity to one another; they retain use of their mother tongue, Spanish; and they remain, in the main, committed Catholics. These conditions purportedly are bad both for America and for the immigrants. They impede new immigrant ability to live the American Dream and, by implication, America's continued global economic preeminence.

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Authors: Eckstein, Susan

Periodical (Full): Perspectives on Politics

Issue: 2

Volume: 4

Pages: 297-307

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

Countries: United States