Clashing Views of Race and Ethnicity

The two articles we be to examine for this essay shroud with the issue of in-migration to the U.S. and whether or not the argumentation is racist. On the Yes side, supporting the presumption that the in-migration debate in the U.S. is rattling racist and discriminatory to another(prenominal)(a) tillages, particularly Latinos and Mexicans is Carlos Fuentes, a enceinte Mexican writer and neighborly commentator, while on the No side is Samuel Huntington, a political science operateivist and Albert Weatherhead III, a professor from Harvard. The argument for immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into the U.S. rests on the feature that immigrants bring ethnic and heathenish diversity to the joined States and they show cheap labor for legion(predicate) of the tasks most Americans would rather not do, vitalizing our economy. On the other side, the argument against immigration is establish on the assumption that Latino culture is so drastically different from American culture that there is no accept of ever assimilating them entirely into American culture and that the immigrants leave remain at odds with American culture and challenges the amity 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 add up to the already serious criminal offence problem in midland city communities.\nI dissent 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 founder assimilated quite effectively to where spate 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 cacophony for the elimination of all immigrants were several(prenominal) generations ago immigrants thems elves as their forefathers were unimpeachably not the first to abide the Americ...