National Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States celebrates the historic process and growing contribution to this country by 44.3 million citizens that claim a Latin or Hispanic Heritage.
This celebration has origins with a decree on September 17th, 1968, authorized by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. A “Hispanic Heritage Week” paid tribute to the Hispanic culture diversity established in the United States. President Gerald Ford issued a decree in 1974 which invited all the school and human rights organizations to take part in the celebration. President Ronald Reagan, on August 17th, 1988, was responsible for approving an extension to a one month celebration, with the name “Hispanic Heritage Month”, that initiated on September 15th and concluded on October 15th.
The reason for this celebration is that five countries in Latin America proclaimed and signed their independence from spain in September 15th, 1821. The counries were: Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. 10 years before Mexico and Chile had proclaimed their independence; Mexico on September 16th and Chile two days later.
The Census 2010 shows that Hispanics in the United States develop in different places. For example, military personnel with 1.3 million and 1.1 million of 18 year old rookies in the armed forces are Hispanic. Also, businessmen in the United States are 43.7% Hispanic. Equally, in education 63% Hispanics finish high school and 14% are university professionals.
Mgr. Gomez, Carlos
Translation of the original document
september 27th, 2011
Bibliography
http;//es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanidad
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