The Lack of Upward Mobility Within the Hispanic Community
Upward social mobility within the Hispanic community in San Antonio is fairly low considering the growth that has been made in terms of population. The Hispanic community has been growing in great quantities since Texas was annexed into the United States. The Hispanic community has had many struggles trying to assimilate into the lifestyle of the American culture, especially in gaining higher socioeconomic status. There Hispanic community within San Antonio has tended not to see a lot of upward mobility. When Hispanics experience social mobility other Hispanics tend to think of the higher class Hispanics as different. This may be a reason that many Hispanics are not experiencing upward mobility. There are many ways to explore the problem further in order to see why the problem continues. To get a more in depth look at the problem I observed reasons and talked to family members during many family gatherings. In my family some people have experience upward mobility and some have not, so I observed the differences about these people and got to know why or why not upward mobility was so important to them. I also asked many of my family members if they thought there were specific reasons why they did or did not gain social mobility even though they grew up in relatively the same way. I also used life experience; I thought about friends who have chose to live their life in such a way where they knew they would or would not attain upward mobility if they were poor. And I also thought back to when I was a child. When I went to school I often went to schools on the south side of San Antonio, even though I lived on the North West side of San Antonio in nicer area of town, because my parents worked at those schools. My mother was a teacher and my father a principal at another school. Children often noticed the differences with in our class from the way I talked to the clothes I wore. To learn more about the Hispanic community in San Antonio and there