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Mexican American forms one of the most oldest and largest of ethnic communities hold in regular army. The overwhelming studyity of Mexican Americans run short in four grey US states, although many another(prenominal) of them are disperse also in upper northerly parts. Spanish Mexicans were among the first people to search and inhabit the States, even before reaching of western settlers. Later, as USA expand its territories aft(prenominal) the Mexican contend of 1846, Texas was annexed from Mexico and thousands of Mexicans automatic aloney found themselves as part of united States, forced to assimilate themselves with a obvious culture.The immersion of Mexicans has been a genuinely deadening and comparatively unaccomplished process and ethnic Mexicans guide forever formed a luxurious niche for them, continuing in their handed-down docile and peaceful outlook that stands at sharp contrast with materialist and high paced American lifestyle. This paper analyzes the friendly, governmental and economic operator that have guided the relation amid Americans and Mexican AmericansHistory of Mexican American RelationSpanish explorers had conquered Mexico by sixteenth century and they used Mexican territories as base to continue their exploration of USA. As the Spanish empire crumbled, Mexico struggled to get its independence, which it achieved in 1826. However, Mexican independence was non a sanguine affair by on the whole accounts and there were numerous issues of internal discord, the drumhead one them being the problem of Texas. Mexico had allowed American settlers to inhabit the barren and desolate landscapes of its blue states, bordering with USA that included, Texas and California in particular.However, the phone number of American settlers increased dramatically in these bowls, and it reached to the proportion that Americans began to dominate the governmental and economic life of these areas. The dominance of Americans started epi sodes of conflict amongst the two people as Americans would non accept the hierarchical, state centric and quite a outdated governmental and friendly pattern of Mexican people and this caused frequent incidents of abrasion among them and Mexican authorities. The American settlers of northern Mexican border areas decidedly perceived that their future lay with a far overmuch(prenominal) prosperous, secure and economically sound USA than a comparatively regressive and stagnant Mexico. Meanwhile US senators also perceived the economic and strategic importance of these northern bordering states.The troubles in these areas cursorily snowballed into a major problem when Texas seceded from Mexico in 1836, a decision that Mexico did not recognize. As the mutual resemblance of both Texas and US was to each other, USA formally annexed Texas and as result Mexico entered in a two years war with USA. The results of war were disastrous for Mexico and it lost more than one third of i ts territories to USA at the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. However, the effects of the war were not limited to mere annexation of territories save also of Mexican people life in this huge geographical area who overnight became subjects of USA.The relations among Americans/Yankees and Mexicans were always push due to superior attitude of Anglo-Americans that had always made them behave with certain hauteur towards Mexicans. In this context, the results of war were more humiliating, and the press release of national land created a unyielding perception of injustice and wrong that stayed with American Mexicans for decades, and to an extent even today.Alienation of Mexican AmericansOf all the major ethnic groups living(a) in USA, the Mexican American familiarity is unique in several respects. contempt their living in a predominantly American connection, they have been able to act up their value system, their culture and tradition, their family structure and their belief, a in cident that has puzzled many neighborly scientists. Although the likeliest explanation of this phenomena relates to the fact that most of the Mexican-American and freshly arrived Mexican immigrants continued to settle in southern states of USA, bordering with Mexico, providing a sense of incessancy and native familiarity that jockstraped them to stay in their niches.However, this is only if partially true and doesnt restrain full light upon the causes. A major reason of separate and distinguished Mexican identity has been long lasting grievances of many Mexicans on account of their forced socialisation in USA and subsequent highhandedness of Americans towards Mexicans after the war years. The American superiority in terms of education and affluence when contrasted with common level of impoverishment, illiteracy, and ignorance of early Mexican Americans definitely presented a great divide in the midst of two people with a pissed notion that any assimilation among them would be impossible.This stereotype further caused Mexican to disengage in their self formed shell, and decrease their interaction with one of most rapidly changing and advancing foundation, of which they had become an unintentional part. Even the fact they were granted all the rights as any other American citizen and no discrimination, at theoretical and ideologic level was practiced with them, it did not help in their assimilation in an completely alien and foreign governmental and social system. As a matter of fact, the very decisions of American government allowe complete governmental and religious freedom to Mexican nation at the time of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo allowed Mexican people to preserve their heathenish and traditional identity in the great cultural potboiler called USA.However, the ground political, social and economic realities worked to bit by bit dilute the barriers that Mexican American had created most them. Slowly many of them started to interact with the mainstream society as they realized the necessity of assimilation in order to exist in circumstances that had changed irrevocably. Most of the Mexican Americans strike out out, taking participation in the world around them, though maintaining their cultural root intact. Those with deeper sense of wrong and who found innovative system unacceptable, took violent methods of protests while few who completely failed to get assimilated continued to live isolated lives.Although some dissatisfied Mexicans tested to express their anger through gist of hysteria, in commonplace the Mexicans rejected violence as expression tool, for they realized that through peaceful course alone they could condition the survival in a by and large Anglo USA. As the Mexicans realized their future compulsion to be intertwined with USA and their new perspective as Mexican Americans, they also gradually accepted the new political and social system.Mexican Americans formed their own political parties, elected representatives in the democratic processes and for a time become influential political force in the southern states, owing to their numerical superiority. The Mexican political leading tried to protect the rights and privileges of their people to the silk hat extent possible for them, notwithstanding the fact that among themselves there were frequent instances of both political and economic exploitation.However, the influence of Mexican governing lasted only as long as they could held to their numerical superiority. As the southern states were committed to rest of the country through panoptic system of railways by 1880s, the inflow of northeast Americans (Yankees) reached steadily, and soon they outnumbered the native Mexicans to end their political and even cultural influence, gradually absorbing them in the Yankee mainstream. As the general trend showed in perspective, Mexicans Americans were successful in preserving their cultural roots and identity in all those p laces where they enjoyed numerical superiority, such as Southern Arizona, New Mexico and South Texas. In other places, where they were outnumbered, they become American Mexicans from Mexican Americans.The composition of Mexican Americans changed after the impenetrable immigration of Mexicans in USA in early 20th century, when USA offered much better employment opportunities. For a colossal time, the immigrants identified themselves merely as workers in an alien land, while culturally unify with their own countrymen. But since 1960s Mexican community has seen wave of cultural arc and social assimilation and integration in the mainstream American system.ReferenceDavid J. Weber. 1973. Foreigners in Their homegrown Land Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans. University of New Mexico Press, 1973.Leo Grebler, Joan W. Moore, Ralph C. Guzman, et al., 1970. The Mexican-American People The Nations blurb Largest Minority . New York, p. 10.The Mexican-American People A Review Symposiu m, Social Science quarterly 52, no. 1 ( June 1971) 8-38,El Grito. 1968. 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