Hispanic Americans in WWII

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This paper looks at Hispanic Americans during World War II. It briefly discusses their educational profile in terms of learning styles and preferred fields of study, as well as the outcomes of these trends.

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"Hispanic Americans have fought in every war that the US has fought, in the 20th and 21st centuries, including the two great wars, and the two Gulf wars (Bean and Tienda, 1988). During these tours of duty, Hispanic Americans have received 38 Congressional Medals of Honor: this is a high number, according to the percentage of Hispanic citizens in the US population, and makes Hispanic Americans, proportionately, the largest single ethnic group to receive this honor (Stone, 2000; Sanchez-Korroll, 1983). During World War II, 400,000 Americans of Hispanic descent fought, including citizens of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Spanish, and South and Central American descent. Indeed, relative to their representation in the US population as a whole, Hispanic Americans contribute a disproportionately high number of military enlistees."

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