"wealtlhy" - 1 õppematerjal

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· More likely than non-Hispanic Whites to live inside central cities (inner cities) of metropolitan areas · Family households tend to be larger · Education lower More likely to be unemployed · More likely to work in service occupations, less in managerial or professional occupations · Earn less than non-Hispanic white laborers. More likely to live in poverty *Mexico = Three ethnic divisions: People of European descent ­ c. 10% - tend to be among the wealtlhy elite · Pure-blooded Indians ­ about a third of the population ­ at the other end of the income scale · Most people ­people of mixed Spanish and Indian blood *Mexican Americans = · The lands ceded by Mexico in 1848 contained only 75,000 Spanish speakers · For years the border was unpatrolled · People worked in Texas, but there was no mass migration further north · Great migration to the US began in the 1960s · 2011­ 35