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In identifying the linguistic, political, social, economic, religious, and familial conventions and/or statuses of four Hispanic groups living in the United States; the following four groups have been chosen, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and El Salvadorians. Each group has a rich cultural identity but has been placed in the same category, Hispanic Americans, on the basis of language. All these groups share the Spanish language, though each has a different dialect and some words spelled and pronounced the same have different meanings

The Mexican American population is the largest minority group in the United States, with over 25 million people. The Mexican Americans come from all over Mexico resulting in a wide variety of linguistic varieties amongst them. Mexico’s language is derived from Spanish but varies from different regions in Mexico. Many Mexican Americans, especially school-aged children, do not speak Spanish except in their homes. Some do not speak Spanish at all. The Mexican American population

Mexican Americans have been known as the poorest minority group; due to the large amount of poor education, low wages and ob opportunities. Many Mexican Americans still hope to discover the American dream and happiness. Mexican Americans language is made up of a mix of their national language Spanish and English sometimes referred to as Spanglish. Politically Mexican Americans were very active in the Mexican American Civil Rights movement. Almost all Mexican Americans are participants in the Roman-Catholic Church. Though a large amount of Mexican Americans, are Jewish and of Sephardic upbringing. Because of the new increase of Evangelists in Latin America has influenced many Mexicans and Mexican Americans to change their religion to Protestant. The Roman-Catholic Church is still the main religion of the Mexican American group.

Most Mexican families are large with more than three children. Common law