- The U.S. population grew 9.7% to 308.7 million during the last decade. Use this map to track where people moved and how racial and ethnic populations changed. Click the map’s iReport icon to see how people live in different places.
Latinos now account for 9% of Oklahoma’s 3.8 million residents, and are the largest minority group, surpassing the number of Native Americans, who make up about 8.5% of the population. While Oklahoma’s population grew about 9% since 2000, the Hispanic population grew 85% and accounted for about half the state’s overall growth.
Garcia was 14 years old when he walked across rugged Southern California mountains in 1979 and quickly made it to Oklahoma to meet a brother who was already working here. He found a job washing dishes in a small Mexican restaurant. Four years later, Garcia became a U.S. citizen. He went from washing dishes to working as a busboy, then a waiter and then managed the little restaurant.
Today, Garcia is the head of a small empire of businesses feeding Oklahoma City’s appetite for Tex-Mex. Garcia owns 12 restaurants, two meat markets, a tortilla factory and a banquet hall. He employs hundreds of people and he’s brought most of his 13 brothers and sisters from Mexico to work in the family business.
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The ‘have nots,’ can recreate these economic success stories all over the world, in USA, Europe, China and else where.
Pretty inspiring.
In this globalization of world markets America is the immigrant. America can learn how to be successful by studying one It’s greatest assets which are the Garcia’s of America.
The story of Garcia is a food for thought for those who do NOT wish to depend on others for survival. No job is too dirty to take up as long as one is sincere with himself and his God. Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih II may Allah be pleased with him has advised that: “Jobless persons should not hesitate to take up even petty jobs.” This golden advice makes one successful like the Garcias of the world.
Beautiful saying “Where there is a will there is a way”