Clashing Views of Race and Ethnicity

The two articles we argon to examine for this essay report with the issue of in-migration to the U.S. and whether or non the contest is racist. On the Yes side, supporting the presumption that the in-migration debate in the U.S. is truly racist and discriminatory to opposite goals, particularly Hispanics and Mexicans is Carlos Fuentes, a outstanding Mexican writer and hearty commentator, while on the No side is Samuel Huntington, a policy-making science presentivist and Albert Weatherhead III, a professor from Harvard. The argument for immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into the U.S. rests on the situation that immigrants bring ethnic and ethnical diversity to the join States and they turn in cheap labor for umpteen of the tasks most Americans would rather not do, vitalizing our economy. On the early(a) side, the argument against immigration is found on the assumption that Latino culture is so drastically different from American culture that there is no r ely of ever assimilating them in all into American culture and that the immigrants leave remain at odds with American culture and challenges the angiotensin-converting enzyme of the nation as a whole. Also, they say that these incoming immigrants from central and South America are actively taking jobs from poorer Americans and tot up to the already serious aversion problem in internal city communities.\nI resist with the stance against immigration to the United States because I, myself, am an immigrant from Nigeria. My father is a contributing member of American society, we speak English and stupefy assimilated quite effectively to where tidy sum cannot tell I am African because I dress, speak, act and consider myself an American. America is at its heart nation of immigrants. The debate against immigration would have us forget that many of the Caucasians clamour for the elimination of all immigrants were some(prenominal) generations ago immigrants themselves as their f orefathers were unimpeachably not the first to watch the Americ...