African Americans

Comparing and Contrasting the
African American and the Hispanic American Cultures
The majority of the Hispanic American culture came to America looking for a better life and a better chance at making a living for their families. So the Hispanic came to America looking for hard work and more money. From the culture being so different and poor this made them the lower class. This also made it harder for Hispanics to get a good education and hard to get jobs. In a different aspect facts show that the divorce rate is very low in Hispanic American families. In the Hispanic culture the family life is very important. Studies have shown that less than sixty percent of Hispanic American household contain only the immediate family. It is a proven fact that because of such a strong family surrounding that only forty –two percent of Hispanic women engage in pre-marital sex.
One characteristic that is of paramount importance in most Hispanic cultures is family commitment, which involves loya...