Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Driving Question

Well, I have not talked about my driving question for a while, so just to refresh your memory it is: What effect does emmigration out of a Latinamerican country and immigration into the US affect the society of both countries? Looking at it this question after reading the book, Waiting for Snow in Havana, we can take Pedro Plan as an example. The grand influx of thousands of Cuban children, as a cause of the horrible effects of the Cuban Revolution with Fidel Castro, into the US had a great affect on both countries. For Cuba, this may have been a positive because there were now a numerous number of inhabitants gone, therefore, less problems to take care of. For the US, however, this caused a minor economic drain because they now had, apart from their own people, thousands of homeless starving children to protect. This also

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