Hispanic American Diversity By Elizabeth Pitts Axia College through University of Phoenix Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Latino immigrants, along with their American born descendants, occupy a unique place in the story of U.S. immigration. They are known by different names, come from widely divergent origins, and took many different paths in their journey to assimilation into the United States. This paper will examine the different linguistic, political, social, economic, religious, and familial conventions and statuses of the four Hispanic groups. In the 2000 United States census 21.5 Million People identified themselves as Mexican Americans. (Microsoft Corporation, 2008) Any one that knows Mexican Americans can probable inform you that they primarily speak Spanish. But not all Mexican Americans do, there are some that have been born in the United States and do not speak their native language at all. In the United States 70% of Mexican Americans households speak both English and Spanish. (Microsoft Corporation, 2008) When looking in to their religious beliefs most people only know of them being Catholic. Which most Mexican American are members of the German Catholic Church, but there are other religions that Mexican Americans chose to follow. During the 17th and 18th century many Spanish settlers brought Judaism to New Mexico, (Microsoft Corporation, 2008) now there are a significant amount of Mexican Americans that call themselves Jews. Yet there are still other Mexican Americans that have converted to Protestantism. Many Mexican Americans will live in houses together even as adults, as with most ethnic groups, usually both parents will have to work to be able to financially take care of the family. There are still many Mexican Americans that are illegal and work for less than minimum wage. (Microsoft Corporation, 2008) Because of this there continues to be a problem of poverty in the Mexican American community. There is usually more crime in lower...