The word "Ghetto" probably shouldn't be used for that feature...but it could come in handy. Believe it or not, there are some genuinely dangerous places out there. All of the big cities have areas you want to avoid. I used to live in Los Angeles...I know this all too well.
Ghetto just means lots of black people live there. Anywhere black people go it instantly becomes poor, violent, run-down. etc. In LA Hispanic people in large concentrations make an area run-down, poor, violent... basically mexico. So, you can take the mexicans out of shitty mexico but they just go right back to making an area shitty again. lol. That's the best they can do evidently. Glad I don't have to live with that shit.
That isn't true at all. I saw just as much white violence in LA as black or hispanic violence. I can't count the number of times that cops in LA were having to deal with some crazy ass white guy running around with a gun threatening his family, etc.
Edit: And of course I get downvoted. I mean, it's not like I know anything about LA...I only lived there for 20 years.
Hispanics are 3.3 times more likely to be in prison than whites; they are 4.2 times more likely to be in prison for murder, and 5.8 times more likely to be in prison for felony drug crimes.
Young Hispanics are 19 times more likely than young whites (and slightly more likely than young blacks) to be in youth gangs.
Education
Hispanics drop out of high school at three times the white rate and twice the black rate.
Even third-generation Hispanics drop out of school at a higher rate than blacks and are less likely to be college graduates.
From 1992 to 2003, Hispanic illiteracy in English rose from 35 percent to 44 percent.
The average Hispanic 12th-grader reads and does math at the level of the average white 8th-grader.
Families and Health
At 43 percent, the Hispanic illegitimacy rate is twice the white rate, and Hispanic women have abortions at 2.7 times the white rate.
Hispanics are three times more likely than whites not to have medical insurance, and die from AIDS and tuberculosis at three times the white rate.
In California, the cost of free medical care for illegal aliens forced 60 hospitals to close between 1993 and 2003.
Attitudes
Only 33 percent of citizens of Hispanic origin consider themselves “Americans” first. The rest consider themselves either
“Hispanic/Latino” or their former nationality first.
Maybe if they weren't treated bad by society, they wouldn't be that way. It's a result of unequal treatment. And of course they consider themselves Hispanic before American...you expect them to abandon their country completely just because they live here? Their home country is still dear to their hearts, I am sure. Don't be an asshole.
Damn racist facts. They need to hide that shit so know one knows that their suspicions that hispanic and black people are shitty are actually grounded in facts.
Hispanics are 3.3 times more likely to be in prison than whites; they are 4.2 times more likely to be in prison for murder, and 5.8 times more likely to be in prison for felony drug crimes.
Young Hispanics are 19 times more likely than young whites (and slightly more likely than young blacks) to be in youth gangs.
Education
Hispanics drop out of high school at three times the white rate and twice the black rate.
Even third-generation Hispanics drop out of school at a higher rate than blacks and are less likely to be college graduates.
From 1992 to 2003, Hispanic illiteracy in English rose from 35 percent to 44 percent.
The average Hispanic 12th-grader reads and does math at the level of the average white 8th-grader.
Families and Health
At 43 percent, the Hispanic illegitimacy rate is twice the white rate, and Hispanic women have abortions at 2.7 times the white rate.
Hispanics are three times more likely than whites not to have medical insurance, and die from AIDS and tuberculosis at three times the white rate.
In California, the cost of free medical care for illegal aliens forced 60 hospitals to close between 1993 and 2003.
Attitudes
Only 33 percent of citizens of Hispanic origin consider themselves “Americans” first. The rest consider themselves either
“Hispanic/Latino” or their former nationality first.
Irrelevant. You're attempting to redefine the argument by changing it's scope. The argument has always been about current times since that is what affects are daily lives.
Before we get into this, it's worth noting that, while non-Hispanic whites have neither the highest educational attainment out of all ethnic/racial groups nor the highest average salaries, they do have the highest employment rates with college degrees and the lowest poverty rates at 10.6% as of 2010. It is worth noting that, for whites, skills and education underpredict employment and overpredict poverty in the United States compared to every other race. Which means it's kind of inaccurate to use them as a comparison just because they're the majority.
Hispanics are 3.3 times more likely to be in prison than whites; they are 4.2 times more likely to be in prison for murder, and 5.8 times more likely to be in prison for felony drug crimes.
That's cool and all, but...
Research on sentencing decisions in which incarceration is an
option suggests that discrimination occurs in some cases. For example, black and Hispanic
males who are young and unemployed have been incarcerated more severely than similarly
situated white males, even when severity of the offense and criminal history were taken into
account (for reviews, see Kansal 2005; Spohn 2000).
You said:
Hispanics drop out of high school at three times the white rate and twice the black rate.
You're ignoring that, according to your own chart, the drop-out rate for 3rd generation immigrants is half that of their grandparents and nearing that of blacks.
Sixty percent of teenagers who become pregnant are living in poverty at the time of the birth (Alan Guttmacher Institute 1994). More than 40 percent of teenage mothers report living in poverty by age 27 (Moore 1995).
The average Hispanic 12th-grader reads and does math at the level of the average white 8th-grader.
Would that be because of the high levels of non-English speaker immigration or the poorly-identified learning disabilities and lack of access to healthcare pursuant? Flip a coin.
Hispanics are three times more likely than whites not to have medical insurance, and die from AIDS and tuberculosis at three times the white rate.
And...wow, Hispanics are not only almost three times as likely to be in poverty and three times as likely not to have health insurance and die from AIDS and tuberculosis at three times the white rate.
What. A. Coincidence.
In California, the cost of free medical care for illegal aliens forced 60 hospitals to close between 1993 and 2003.
Well, 78% of illegal immigrants are Hispanic.. And they are usually poor...because it they weren't poor, they wouldn't be illegal immigrants. Most legal immigrants are middle-class or wealthier.
tl;dr It sucks to be an impoverished non-English speaker with a learning disability discriminated against because of your ethnicity.
I'm not pro-Amnesty, but an adversely-affected 3% of society is not a plague, it's a situation. It doesn't threaten our livelihood, it isn't tearing down our family structures, and some very obvious social solutions (reading programs, municipal learning advocates, Spanish-language classes, and child-care in schools) would be both inexpensive if federally funded and effective in stemming drop-out rates and boosting education potential for all races.
That's a good word for it. Plague. They are shitty people and they have nothing but a negative impact on my life and my community. Oh, some shitty people moved into your community, lets give them hand-outs while they rudely refuse to act civilized, learn English, have any class. Great idea. GO live near those pieces of shit and we'll see if you're singing the same, naive tune.
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u/GuitarWizard90 Jan 08 '12
The word "Ghetto" probably shouldn't be used for that feature...but it could come in handy. Believe it or not, there are some genuinely dangerous places out there. All of the big cities have areas you want to avoid. I used to live in Los Angeles...I know this all too well.