ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that following the establishment of communities across the country composed of multiple nationalities, nationality-based differences have given way to a Latino agenda that has become increasingly institutionalized. All Latino national origin groups are increasingly familiar with each other and share living environments. Latino respondents in the Latino National Survey were more likely to rate Unemployment or Jobs and Education/Public Schools as the most important problems facing the Latino community than the country as a whole. When considering the most important problem facing the country, Latinos show striking similarities to the general public in the ordering but not the actual levels of priorities in terms of the war in Iraq and the economy, while the actual levels are remarkably similar in the percentages choosing Unemployment/Jobs and Education/Public Schools. Conversely, Latinos have the highest rate of agreement that it is very important to teach English to immigrant children of any group.
