Hispanic Culture Essays

America is living la Vida Loca as it enters the 21st century.  Long proclaimed as a melting pot, the stew that is the United States is currently being flavored by salsa as the Hispanic population explodes and the culture takes on a Latin flavor.  In music, in movies, on television, in the language, in the supermarkets and in “traditional” American neighborhoods, Hispanic immigrants, second- and third-generation citizens, and families whose ancestry came long before the Anglos are transforming society, changing the way we look, feel, think, eat, dance and even vote.

As of 2003, there were 31 million Hispanics in the United States, and it is estimated that the population will reach 96 million by 2050—an increase of 200 percent—comprising 24.5 percent of the total US population and making Hispanics the largest minority group in the Unites States.  Hispanic demographics are growing at a rate seven times the national rate, driven more by natural increase rather than immigration.  Such explosive growth cannot help but change America in the coming century.

The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, attempting to carve a city on the hill out of the primeval wilderness, and the society they created shaped the American national culture for the next three centuries.  It should be noted, that the town of Santa Fe (in present-day New Mexico) was founded in 1610.  Spanish settlements in Florida, Texas, and California all predate English colonies.  Indeed, such American place names such as Florida, California, Colorado, Rio Grande, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and San Antonio (to name a few) are all Spanish.

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