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what are the cultural similarities and differences between Mexican Americans and Argentine Americans?

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    9 years ago

    Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican descent. As of July 2009, Mexican Americans make up 10.3% of the United States' population with over 31,689,000 Americans listed as of Mexican ancestry. Mexican Americans comprise 66% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States.[2] The United States is home to the second largest Mexican community in the world second only to Mexico itself comprising nearly 22% of the entire Mexican origin population of the world. Canada is a distant third with a Mexican origin population of 37,000 as of 2001 although increasing to 61,505 as of 2006.[3][4] In addition, as of 2008 there were approximately 7,000,000 undocumented Mexicans living in the United States which if included in the count would increase the US share to over 28% of the world's Mexican origin population (Note that some of the undocumented would be captured in the US Census count depending on their willingness to provide information).[5] Most Mexican Americans are the descendants of the Indigenous peoples of Mexico and/or Europeans especially Spaniards.[6][7]

    Argentine Americans are citizens and residents of the United States whose origins are in the South American nation of Argentina.

    The profile of the Argentine American population is generally similar to the overall U.S. population's. Among the key differences, however, is educational attainment. There, Argentine Americans exhibit a rate of 39.5% of holders of bachelor's, graduate, or professional degrees, contrasted with the 27.5% of the overall U.S. population. The difference is more marked among women: 40.2% for Argentine American females, and 26.7% for all U.S. females.[1]

    Another major difference is the fact that 69.1% of Argentine Americans are immigrants, which contrasts sharply with the 12.6% of the overall U.S. population.[1]

    Argentine Americans had a median household income of $55,044. This is again higher than the national figure, which was $50,740.[1]

    Some idea of their ancestral origins is supplied by the demographics of Argentina, which portray a nation that is as much of Italian as Spanish ancestry, but with significant German, British, French, Amerindian, Slavic, and Semitic components.[2]

    Prior to the 1970s, the Argentineans that emigrated to United States were classified in the category of "Other Hispanics", therefore, Argentine immigration statistics do not exist until that time.

    Source(s): Wikipedia
  • 9 years ago

    Argentine's Generally smell better and make above minimum wage

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