The Mexican American Experience

Even though Italian immigrant parliament experience and the Mexican American experience are separated by time and distance they share many common actions. For example, they share many common barriers to migrants from one country to the other, a similar american dream, and similar connections to finding hope in tough times. By migrating from one country to the other which that is completely different from one another there are many barriers such as the language, discrimination and economic. The Italian community that migrated to Harlem during the 1880-1950 suffered many of these barriers. For example, “since many Italian immigrants were illiterate, immigration restrictionists sought to impose a literacy test for admission to the

The barrier that Italians and Mexicans experience are very much the similar for they were both discriminated, had language difficulty and there were false accusations about them. Even though the experiences are separated by time and distance, Mexicans were discriminated just as equally as Italians. In the modern day, false accusations about Mexican immigrants have been made majorly by a President candidate from the Republican party named Donald Trump. Donald Trump’s ideology about Mexican is that “Mexicans and other foreign workers are to blame for declining labor-force participation, unemployment, and stagnating wages among native-born population, especially among blacks” (Donald Trump’s America). The language barrier is a huge factor in discrimination and prejudice because many Mexicans who migrate do not know the language and have a bigger difficulty trying to accommodate in a community where they do not understand the

In the Italian experience, one example can be the traditions that they do for Our lady Of Mount Carmel. Our lady Of Mount Carmel is used as a way of keeping hope, for she is remembered from when “St. John of the Cross credited Mary with saving him from Drowning as a child, leading him to Carmel, and helping him escape from prison” (Our Lady of Mount Carmel). There is also a tradition in which “ Mary appeared to St. Simon Stock, a leader of the Carmelites, and gave him a scapular, telling him to promote devotion to it” (Our Lady of Mount Carmel). This has kept the view of hope through decades throughout the Italian community, for they have a “three day Festival... include food from 16 italian restaurants...musical entertainment with such performers and singers… a kids zone with rides and games; a beer and wine patio” (Tradition Returns). All of this if followed with “a mass at 10 am sunday” which is “followed by a procession along Shrewsbury street” (Tradition returns). This shows how,”Roman Catholic religious traditions have always been important to Italians”,for “their loyalty to the church has not altered since they first arrived in the United States more than 500 years ago” (Italian