Latinos Hiring Latinos in America

This article focuses on the rising number of Latino families who are U.S. born and making over $100,000 a year. With the increasing amount that Latino citizens are making they are hiring laborers to help them with household duties like many other Americans. However, many laborers tend to be Latinos as well. Some Latinos in the article are okay with the idea of hiring people of there same heritage because the see it as helping them or providing their children another base of teaching their roots. Others though, who grew up with parents or doing similar labor, seem to be conflicted with the idea of being viewed as white collar when they consider themselves in the blue collar class still. This article interested me because while the hired laborers are not always Latino this is the one time that Latino employers seem to feel an uneasiness. Having never grown up with hired help I wonderer if the sense occurs for whites and African Americans? It is also interesting to note that those being hired seem to be suprised to learn that those who they are working for or their neighbors are Latino. Does it create a sense that Latinos or their kids can make it as immigrants?

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