New Citizens Mean Shifting Culture

For a lot of the current events that I have read, I try to think about what will happen in the future for the Hispanics. In the news article, “New Citizens Mean Shifting Culture,” they also focused on the future. They thought that America’s culture would change because of how many Hispanics are immigrating to America. The writer also questioned if it is American citizen’s obligation to try to integrate the Hispanics into American culture. The writer’s main reason for why it would be so hard for the Hispanics to become a part of their culture is because the writer thought that Hispanics are resistant. “…he argues that this recent wave of immigration –mostly from Mexico- is different from past wave because Mexican Americans are particularly resistant to assimilation into Anglo American culture,” (“New Citizens Mean Shifting Culture”). The writer believes that most of the other groups that have immigrated into the U.S. have become successful, however he does not think the Hispanics will because they are not willing to adapt to America’s culture. I think that there are good and bad things to that statement. I think that it is good that the Hispanics want to keep their original culture because it is very important that America has a diverse culture. American is known as a melting pot of different cultures, and I think that part of that reason is because other ethnicities like to keep things from their original culture when they move to the U.S. I also think that it is bad because it is important that when a new ethnicity immigrates to America that they adapt to their surroundings, and try to become united with the country that they are immigrating to, and in this case it is America.