Differential Treatment of the Latino Population in the United States

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Differential Treatment of the Latino Population in the United States

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Introduction

The term “Latino” or “Hispanic” is used to refer to a population sharing a common heritage, including a language. The words should not be used to refer to people of a common race or ancestry. Latinos account for the biggest growing minority group found in the United States. Many researchers have classified them as a group of people having a single ethnic group, but in reality, Latinos can be described as heterogeneous from the socio-economic, genetic, and cultural point of view. Worth noting, A newly released survey by the Pew Research Centre about racism in America, more than half (52%) of the Hispanics population in the United States admit…