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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Falcao, can I ask a politically incorrect question regarding the hispanic-American communities? Is there cultural tension between Cuban Americans and Mexican-Americans?
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First, I must say that I'm Mexican and I live in Mexico, so I don't have first-person knowledge about Hispanic-American communities. Now, in the case of southern Florida, I have a sister living there and I have been there 2 or 3 times. The stereotype I have been told is that Cubans feel superior (i.e. more educated) than other Hispanics. I don't know if that feeling is true or not, but one needs to take in account that many Cuban migrants are (or were) high- and middle-class, while Mexican migrants tend to be poor. One reason is that Cubans migrate due political reasons, while Mexicans migrate due economical reasons.