The current ones or the recent arrivals? They're presented with a choice to work or get on the dole (or some combination). Now when immigrants were mostly men, and sending money home , they chose to work. Many of these were productive, some were highly successful, and some and built business. Their descendants (particularly in less dense areas), can basically pass as Mediterranean and have every incentive to do so. They'll integrate and be white in a generation or two.
Others took the urban route, clung to themselves, packed into ghettos, and learned how to work the system and the streets. They and their descendants will be trapped, and struggle make it out because they chose gibs and cultural distinction over building equity and integration.
Your description is pretty accurate, and I live among all of these types in San Diego, but I was asking whether they outranked whites on the slavery hierarchy mentioned above.
Looking at it purely by race is probably myopic. There's a choice between an ethos/culture of dependence or independence, though race and enculturation play a part in which culture we associate with.
Our Hispanic brothers can choose the BIPOC coalition or "whiteness" (which is really just traditional westernism). They can play the role of the oppressed or exercise self determination.
The current ones or the recent arrivals? They're presented with a choice to work or get on the dole (or some combination). Now when immigrants were mostly men, and sending money home , they chose to work. Many of these were productive, some were highly successful, and some and built business. Their descendants (particularly in less dense areas), can basically pass as Mediterranean and have every incentive to do so. They'll integrate and be white in a generation or two.
Others took the urban route, clung to themselves, packed into ghettos, and learned how to work the system and the streets. They and their descendants will be trapped, and struggle make it out because they chose gibs and cultural distinction over building equity and integration.
I mentioned "new" countrymen.
Your description is pretty accurate, and I live among all of these types in San Diego, but I was asking whether they outranked whites on the slavery hierarchy mentioned above.
Looking at it purely by race is probably myopic. There's a choice between an ethos/culture of dependence or independence, though race and enculturation play a part in which culture we associate with.
Our Hispanic brothers can choose the BIPOC coalition or "whiteness" (which is really just traditional westernism). They can play the role of the oppressed or exercise self determination.
A lot of the ones I know have chosen door #2. Not all, but enough to give me hope.