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30 Famous Hispanic People Who Have Shaped Our Culture
Pedro Pascal
Most widely recognized for his leading roles in The Mandalorian and The Last of Us, Pedro Pascal is a famous actor known for being an internet heartthrob and for portraying father figures. The Chilean-American actor’s family fled Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship, ultimately moving to San Antonio, Texas, where Pascal was raised. He has also appeared in shows like Game of Thrones and Narcos, and he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his work on The Last of Us.
Isabel Allende
Isabelle Allende is one of the most famous writers of magical realism and an iconic voice in Latin American literature. She’s been called the most widely-read Spanish language writer in the world: Her novels have been translated into more than 42 languages and sold more than 77 million copies.
The Chilean author’s best-known book is The House of the Spirits, which is set in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship. A little-known fact is that she’s related to actor Pedro Pascal. In 2014, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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History of Mexican Americans
Mexican American history, or the history of American residents of Mexican descent, largely begins after the annexation of Northern Mexico in 1848, when the nearly 80,000 Mexican citizens of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico became U.S. citizens.[1][2] Large-scale migration increased the U.S.' Mexican population during the 1910s, as refugees fled the economic devastation and violence of Mexico's high-casualty revolution and civil war.[3][4] Until the mid-20th century, most Mexican Americans lived within a few hundred miles of the border, although some resettled along rail lines from the Southwest into the Midwest.[5]
With the border being established many Mexicans began to find more creative ways to get across. In the article Artificial Intelligence and Predicting Illegal Immigration to the USA the statistic that "more than half of undocumented immigrants in the USA enter the USA legally and overstay their visas" (Yektansani). This happened all throughout the timeline.
In the second half of the 20th century, Mexican Americans diffused throughout the U.S., especially into the Midwest and Southeast,[6][7] though the groups' largest population cent