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Mexican-American culture in Michigan (4 P) Pages in category "Hispanic and Latino American culture in Michigan" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
By 1961 the Holy Redeemer church had established a Spanish-language mass and it had 500 Mexican church worshipers. [ 6 ] As of the 1950s and 1960s other churches frequented by Mexican Americans and Mexicans included All Saints Church, Holy Cross Church in Delray , Most Holy Trinity, St. Anne's, St. Anthony, St. Boniface, St. Leo, and St. Vincent.
Martha says she was prompted to begin the project after trying to organize her husband's old papers. Hector Padilla, a native Puerto Rican, had passed on and she felt that the history contained in papers from his tenure as the first Latino city commissioner, as well as lobbying for migrant worker conditions and his efforts in forming the Hispanic Congressional Caucus, were important to the ...
The word Spanish refers to both a language and a nationality. A common mistake is calling a Spanish-speaking person Spanish. A person who speaks Spanish is Hispanic.
Hispanic culture places a strong value on family, and is commonly taught to Hispanic children as one of the most important values in life. Statistically, Hispanic families tend to have larger and closer knit families than the American average. Hispanic families tend to prefer to live near other family members.
A documentary called A Journey to Mexico was created, highlighting travels of people from two Mexican towns to the Mexicantown area of Detroit. [ 6 ] In the game Deus Ex: Human Revolution , the protagonist Adam Jensen was fired from Detroit PD 's SWAT after an incident that took place in Mexicantown.
"Latino" is the umbrella term for people of Latin American descent that in recent years has supplanted the more imprecise and bureaucratic designation "Hispanic." [1] Part of the mystery and the difficulty of comprehension lie in the fact that the territory called Latin America is not homogeneous in nature or culture. [2]
Andrés Abreu, founder of El Vocero Hispano. Dominican journalist Andres Abreu moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1991. [2] Seeing the growing number of Hispanic and Latino Americans in West Michigan, with the demographic tripling between 1990 and 2000, he sought to create a Spanish language newspaper to serve the community. [3]