Why cant all latino immigrants be like the cubans and fly the american flag with pride?

Question

This boggles the mind. Why dont mexicans realize that if they want to get accepted in a new country they need to sincerely "like" the country. Realize that a lot of discrimination comes form your arrogance and ignorance towards the united states. Realize that you are making americans hate ALL latinos. As a latino I find this disgusting. When my parents came to the United States to escape Fidel Castro we thanked the americans and adored their values.

Cubans in miami fly the cuban flag because ma y of us hope to live in a free democratic cuba. We also fly the american flag because we appreciate what the united states has done for the cuban people, the same people fleeing a communist dictatorship. Many of us hope that one day cuba will be like the United States, free. Many of us want to model cuba on america, because we love this country so much. Mexicans on the other hand wave the american flag for convenience. Most of them do not appreciate the values of America, and protest with che guevara t shirts. Mexico is the biggest hypocrite in the world. During the cuban revolution, the mexican govn kicked out people fleeing to the mexican embassy in havana. Many of these people were shot by castro's thugs. So dont lecture me about Human Rights.

Answer 1

I am another Latino, (i am from Peru), who feel that same way as you. I am now a naturalized American Citizen, and I am proud to be an American and love my new country and home.

Answer 2

Why are you trying to stir up problems on here? I mean how do you know that all Cubans fly the american flag with pride. I mean isn't there a place in florida called little cuba or havanna? I don't think that's adapting too much to this country if your isolating yourself in a certain area. And not to act like i'm and anti but why did your parents come to this country instead of trying to free cuba from castro? And did they go through the proper channels to get here or just land or took advantage of that whole being on dry land and your automatically a U.S citizen law.

Answer 3

The most certain way to appreciate something is to live without it for a while. Cubans appreciate American values because they know what it's like to live without them. On the other hand, most Mexicans are primarily interested in living in America just because of the economic opportunities. Also, like hi_sakura said, some Mexicans might still be bitter about the Mexican-American war.

Answer 4

That is why the Cubans have been so successful here, they are doing exactly as most immigrant groups have done, they have accepted the assimilation. They have the drive to BE one of us, not the desire to use us for whatever they can get.

Richard R - You are wrong most immigrants learn the language in the first generation, isolated communities that retain their old countries language are the exception not the rule, and is seen most among the Asian immigrants who any linguist can tell you have the most difficult time with English (just as English speakers have the hardest time learning Asian languages)

Often those from other countries learn English BEFORE coming here (man, what a concept that is) Everyday in China, India, Japan, and even in Mexico people are studying English to prepare themselves for a life here in the US weather it just be a temporary visit or for permanent relocation.

In Ireland this trend was so powerful that their native language had almost become extinct and the majority of people today don't even know the Irish ever had their own language before the famines drove them to a mass exodus.

Answer 5

We were not the ruling class that was kicked out of our country by a Communist revolution!

What rights did CIA backed and Armed Henchman and Batista backers deserve, The same as those they ruled with am iron fist.The mostly White , rich ruling class left Cuba, The black , poor Cubans mostly stayed in Cuba

Answer 6

Perhaps flying the cuban flag might be taken as support for castro?

Perhaps our Mexican immigrants are proud of their heritage. People forget that immigrants to the United States by and large did NOT learn english and become presto Americans. Immigrants tended to live in segregated communities with people of the same nationality. Few learned more than a bare minimum of english. Their CHILDREN became fluent in english, but maintained their ethnic identity. The GRANDCHILDREN generally became fully integrated generic Americans who could complain about immigrants speaking foreign languages and waving foreign flags. It is alarming how many people forget , or never learned, this simple truth.

Answer 7

There is a diffrenece. Cubans (at least the lighter skinned ones) are revered here and their issues have dominated Florida politics and US Foreign Policy in Latin America for 40+years. Mexicans? No such luck. They are hated, reviled and treated like criminals even if they and their families are US citizens have been here for hundreds of years.

Answer 8

Because the history of Cuban immigration is so different from Mexican immigration, and I might add, not all "Mexican Americans" are immigrants: in the 19th century the United States took over a number of territories originally in possession of the Mexican government, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, among others. The Mexican citizens living in these territories had little choice but to acquiesce to the new government, or else lose their homes and move to Mexico. (Not "back to", by the way---most of them were born in these territories and were native Californios, Texans, etc.) Many of them ended up losing their homes anyway, as the U.S. government didn't recognize the land charters granted to these families by the Spanish or Mexican governments, and Americans were allowed to squat and essentially take over the ranchos or estates.

Most Mexican Americans, at least in California where I was born, know this, and still take pride in their family roots there. Discrimination against Mexican Americans by Anglos hasn't helped this feeling of separation: it wasn't until the post-war period that California desegregated many of its schools, government offices, industries, and even cemeteries. Yet hostility towards recent immigrants from Central and Latin America, not to mention the English First movement, has made the Mexican community feel even more estranged from mainstream U.S. culture.

Most Cuban Americans came to the U.S. seeking asylum from the Castro government: most of them were well-educated professionals from the middle class and were not without resources. Their patriotism is to be expected, but I think your question drives home a point: the Latino community in the U.S. isn't one monolithic group. Cuban Americans in Florida have totally different interests from say, Mexican immigrants, legal and illegal, who live in border states like Texas, or old Californio families whose heritage dates back to the 17th century, or for that matter, Puerto Rican nationalists living in New York. Language is in some cases the only common thread for all of these groups. But overall, your contempt is misplaced....

Answer 9

Unlike Cubans, Mexicans want to get rid of their own people.

The Mexican government even prints a guide on how to LEAVE Mexico and enter the US illegally! Believe me, Mexico does NOT want these illegal immigrants back!! They want the USA to KEEP them!

Answer 10

Sometimes people do people-like things.

One of those is to resent others....others who help you. Because you need their help, you feel small(er). You resent their strength. And so you overcompensate by building yourself up and them down in a misguided effort to try and "equalize" the relationship. You don't even realize that is what you are doing or why you are doing it. But it is.

And so it might be in the situation you describe.

It's not a joke, but it is a riddle. Maybe the Riddler has a better answer than I.