Talk:Salvadoran Americans

History of Latinos and Hispanics
Please consider contributing to the article entitled History of Latinos and Hispanics. Thank you! --JuanMuslim 1m 02:04, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Religion?
As a "Salvadoran American", I can vouch that no-one in my family, on either side, (a very large family) is roman catholic. Rather, many are either non-religious, evangelical christian or jehovah's witness. Why is religion even part of the article? Thanks to the civil war, we have been scattered all over assimilating whatever culture/society we happen to drop into... Roman catholocism is strong among mexicans. Hopefully we aren't confusing the two distinct culture. Ateo 19:05, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

spelling
Isn't it spelled "SalvadorIAN" and not salvadoran..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.202.79.143 (talk) 23:51, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Most Salvadorans Join Gangs?
Where exactly do you get this information from? This is wildly offensive and needs to be removed immediately. This mistake makes the article look bad and unprofessional.

Not only that to use a term Salvadoran American.... Salvadorans are Americans...

Anyone from the Tip of Canada to the Pit of Chile is American --71.130.211.48 (talk) 07:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The American media gave wide attention to the Mafia Salvadorena-13 (more known as MS13) in the late 1990's and early 2000's, the Salvadoran gangs in Los Angeles/Long Beach, California had grown into national and international criminal organizations to transplanted or created more branches in other US states (from Seattle to Detroit to Oklahoma City among examplatory cities where MS13 was transplanted) and countries such as Mexico, Canada and those returned to El Salvador began to introduce youth gang life there. Salvadoran people are not all criminals, but MS13 harmed the community's fair name and reputation in this country, and in the Palm Springs-Indio area (the Coachella Valley in Southern California where so many Salvadorans and Central Americans moved to), the MS13's presence has sharply increased crime, drug activity, illegal sale of firearms and violently conflicted with Chicano/Mexican gangs. + 71.102.3.86 (talk) 22:06, 15 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Update: The Wikipedia article failed to discuss "Little Salvador" or "Little Central America" of South Los Angeles, between Pico Boulevard, Central Avenue, Main Street and 13th Place, infamous for the origin of MS13 gangs are now a less violent middle-class section. While more Central Americans settled in the northern, eastern and western parts of downtown L.A. and Mid-City, Los Angeles with the formerly Jewish, Korean and African-American sections of L.A. now transformed into barrios of a more Salvadoran culture and flavor of Central America. I believe there are an equal number of Central Americans with Salvadorans in the lead in Los Angeles (esp. East Los Angeles) with those of Mexican descent, each are 20-22% of Los Angelenos as the city is now half (48.5-49.9%) Latino. + 71.102.3.122 (talk) 01:44, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

SalvadorIAN not Salvadoran!!!
Page must be moved at once!!Salcan (talk) 19:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The standard and more common demonym is Salvadoran, not Salvadorian. This is not only apparent through a search on the internet, but Garner's Modern American Usage (grammar and style guide) only lists Salvadoran as the standard denizen label (pg 235). The user who originally moved it to "Salvadorian" has been blocked as a sockpuppet.Kman543210 (talk) 00:41, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Infobox
In the infobox where it has pictures of a few Salvadoran Americans (eg. Arturo Alvarez, Joey Castillo etc.), it is getting too big, and to include all pictures, it needs to be smaller and show 3 people in one row instead of 2 people. Every other Hispanic American infobox shows 3 rows and is very spacious. May anyone please fix this problem without excluding any pictures. Thanks! Soccafanatic7 14:04, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Organization
This article is a bit difficult to read. It seems like the information is everywhere and/or isn't really relevant. I'm planning to reorganize this article and add a few -cited- sources to make it both readable and more informative. Wish me luck! (Thesuntoucher1000 (talk) 02:09, 20 December 2014 (UTC))

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Education statistics
'According to the 2004 ACS, only 40 percent of all Salvadoran and Salvadoran American residents in the U.S. have a high school diploma, the lowest among all other Hispanic groups.[34] Only 10 percent of Salvadorans possess a bachelor's degree, also the lowest among Latino Americans. Nonetheless, 15 percent of Salvadorans lives under poverty (among the lowest) and the average income of Salvadorans is $40,000.[35]'

This data is almost 20 years old, updated statistics from preferably the last couple of years would be more suitable.

Salvadoreans are fairly recent migrants to the US, with not many residing in America prior to the 1980s, and a migration wave that was sparked by the desire and urgency to flee Death Squads funded by US government. So it’s not at all surprising that the American government for many years was  extremely reluctant to accept Salvadoreans as genuine refugees and blamed their migration on  economical reasons, denying them citizenship on that basis.

It also explains why the education levels of Salvadoreans was supposedly the lowest compared to other Latin Americans almost 20 years ago. A significant portion have lived without the rights Latin Americans who are citizens have, with many of those having ancestors who were also citizens, possibly going back several generations. Education and professional white collar jobs are not realistically attainable for undocumented migrants who have almost no rights and are often exploited due to their undocumented status. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.59.117.190 (talk) 14:01, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Edits to Article
Hello Wikipedians,

I have been doing research for a class and have found some information that would be helpful to add to this article. I will be making small edits and adding to the sections, Socioeconomics and Culture and El Salvador and United States Relations. I will add information on Asylum seekers and the percentage of applicants that have been denied. As well as information on a 1990 that challenged these denied applications. This will add more current information on these asylum applicants. I will elaborate on the Central American Resource Center as well, what they do now and the money they have raised. I have a corrected date for when TPS was granted as well, and will be adding the citation for this. Lastly, I will add information on remittances and a statistic on this from 2002. My source comes from the book, The Process of Building Trans-Regional Migrant Advocacy Networks: Guatemalan and Salvadoran Experiences, published in 2007 by El Colegio de México. The author, Susanne Jonas, holds a Ph.D. and is a professor of Latin American and Latino studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. In total my edits should amount to about 200 words. If anyone would like to comment on these changes please let me know on this talk page or my own. Isabellasainz (talk) 03:43, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

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Yes many Salvadorans are Catholic
Im a Salvadoran American and yes my family is Catholic there are many. 108.77.143.6 (talk) 02:01, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

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Does this population account for illegals?
Many Salvadoreans are illegals due to trying to escape the high murder rate in their home country (the murder rate is going down significantly now due to Bekele.) NamelessLameless (talk) 21:47, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

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