Human Rights :: American History, Racial Relations

Symbolic interactionist perspective for race, ethnicity, and immigration leans toward social interactions. Hispanic racial conflict is becoming more common than white and black racism in America. Culture is one bias Americans tend to stamp on the Hispanic culture and labeling them all as Mexicans. Hispanic racial conflict and symbolic interactionist perspective is viewed as stereotyping and social racisms between different ethnicities. Hispanic immigrants move to America for work or education purposes in order to better their lifestyles. Most Hispanics who live in Mexico are living in poverty stricken environments. They grow up with family cultures and are expected to cross over the border to provide for their families. The will to come to America is for survival purposes for their selves and families back in Mexico. Most Americans are not very welcoming when it comes to Hispanic origins. Jones (1991) writes, â€Å"The fact that Hispanics and Whites are distributed among different social roles, with Hispanics as a group occupying lower positions than those of Whites in the status of hierarchy, may lead to inference regarding differences in personal attributes† (pg,2). Hispanics living in America are usually considered poor and live in lower class neighborhoods. Immigrants (especially illegal immigrants) work jobs they can get hired at usually being low paying jobs. Americans allow â€Å"under the table† wages so they can greedily under pay Hispanics and people with no education. In America it is against the law to pay below minimum wage ($7.25 p/hr) to accredited workers. Some owners of farms, construction work, and meat factories pay illegal immigrants low wages (probably like $5 or $6 an hour) under the table in order to keep more profit for themselves. Hispanics come from a different cultural environment than Americans and can only find low payi ng, dangerously polluted, and physically hard jobs. Mooney, Knox, and Schacht (2011) write, â€Å"But many others cannot overcome the social disadvantages associated with their minority status and become victims of a cycle of poverty† (pg. 352). The environments Hispanics work in could influence them to feel socially incapable of finding better work. Leaving them stuck in lower class deceptions of Hispanic roles in society. Jones (1991) writes, â€Å"This approach follows Cantor and Mischel’s (1979) analysis that social role is a more basic level of categorization than ethnicity because social role maximizes the richness, vividness, and distinctiveness of perceptions of people† (pg.