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Date Submitted: 06/18/2012 03:36 PM

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Discuss the major social characteristics among Chicanos, brown Anglo Saxon Protestants and identify the major differences among the three typologies?

In our current day and age one of our major negative social characteristics among Chicanos, brown Anglo Saxon protestants are that in Anglo Community oriented brown leaders whose purpose and design proposes to uplift the socioeconomic status or awareness of Chicanos in the barrios, are unabashedly labeled irresponsible un-American agitators and radicals. There are many ways they get labeled as such, the U.S. tries to say that they are not smart because they mostly work low income jobs. The U.S government also says that they are incapable of being something in our communities. The U.S. government views brown Anglo Saxons and Chicanos as two different entities but likes to label them the same. For example, in E.C. Orozco’s novel he depicts the view of Chicanos from white Americans point of view and says that a Chicano's identity is made dependent on the white American's whims. Equal representation and political opportunity are more difficult goals for a brown American to realize, simply because all the prerequisites for elitist brown leadership that excludes most sensitized barrio activists which were set many decades ago.

Many people in American government tend to use the word Brown Anglo Saxon a lot, but it is not the actual definition in which it is used. An Anglo-Saxon is a member of one of the Germanic peoples, the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, who settled in Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries. It’s a person of English ancestry. Also, it’s any of the descendants of the Anglo-Saxons, who were dominant in England until the Norman Conquest of 1066.

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