Years earlier, at his parents’ and teachers’ behest, he had worked hard to get into college, sending applications, essays and test scores to 10 schools. After he enrolled at Northeastern Illinois University, he participated in a university support program, Proyecto Pa'Lante, geared toward Latino students like him who needed help learning the basics of academic life, like which classes count toward degrees. But the program was only for the first two years of school. After that, Casimiro was on his own.

Many Latino high school students lack guidance from parents or counselors when they are undertaking the college selection and application process. Some immigrant parents may be unfamiliar with the college system in the United States. The entire college process can be so intimidating and confusing that these students simply give up without any protest from parents, who often do not understand the ramifications of that fateful decision. It also may be difficult to find inspirational role models and mentors (particularly Latinos) who have attended college because of the college completion gap that persists. Attending overcrowded and under-resourced schools compounds this situation—as overloaded school counselors are unable to meet the needs of their students.

In addition, one of the major challenges that immigrant and ethnic minority youth face in their path towards college graduation is related to their higher likelihood of being from lower socioeconomic backgrounds (see Pong & Landale, [38]). Even beginning earlier in their educational careers, parental education and financial resources are at least partially responsible for ethnic differences in achievement. For example, youth from Asian backgrounds, who tend to be of higher socioeconomic status (Fuligni & Witkow, [19]), perform better in high school than youth from Latino families (Hagelskamp et al., [23]). In addition, the "immigrant paradox" of achievement, in which more recent immigrants tend to perform better than later generations, tends to be more readily apparent when controlling for SES. It is only when compared with similarly low SES families that youth from immigrant families achieve at higher levels than those from same-ethnic, non-immigrant families (Crosnoe, [11]; Pong & Zeiser, [39]).

This could include expectations of speaking the family’s native or heritage language while incorporating values found in their majority group society (i.e., in the U.S., non-Latinx White culture) as well as adhering to traditional gender role scripts that may not align with the youth, causing a discrepancy in the adolescents’ beliefs and an increase in depressive symptoms (Céspedes & Huey, 2008). Céspedes and Huey (2008) found that gender role discrepancy was associated with adolescent depression and was more significant among Latina adolescents, who reported greater differences in traditional gender role beliefs between themselves and their parents, leading to higher levels of depressive symptoms

Rather than look us in the eye, many gabachos prefer to look down their noses at us. Rather than face that we are their moral and intellectual equals, they happily pity us.

Ya'll better recognize that many #Hispanics are vying for honorary "white" status. Of course along w/ the 'model minority' Asian. All share & have commonality of anti Black views.

Fennville’s Hispanic residents account for about 51% of the city’s population, and they are left to figure out how to respond to having a Proud Boy on the governing body. Those who spoke with the Guardian, however, say they are not afraid or angry. They are vigilant and watching, and they are also unsurprised.

Rather than look us in the eye, many gabachos prefer to look down their noses at us. Rather than face that we are their moral and intellectual equals, they happily pity us. Pity is what inspires their sweet tooth for Mexican pain, a craving many of them hide.

More people than you would think believe that the blue checkmark = trustworthy. But all the blue checkmark really does is say that the person is who they say they are, that they are the person of that name and not an imposter. Your two-second “mirror and head-check” here is going to be to always, always hover, and see what they are verified for. In this case the verification means something: this person works for CNBC.com, a legitimate news site, and she covers a relevant beat here (the White House):