background of being a refugee population primarily from the middle or upper classes. On the other hand, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans tended to be more liberal politically and emerge from immigrant populations from the lower classes in the islands.
Thus, stereotyping, or even characterizing is always dangerous. Yet, there is also such a thing as ethnicity and the importance of cultural identification. Garcia (1982) looked at the Chicano community trying to identify some of these qualities. He distinguished between ethnic identity, which is simply social location, such as Mexican American, and ethnic identification, which is more clearly related to such things as choice o
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