Uruguayan Americans

This was due to the emergence of serious economic and political problems after World War II, particularly money crises and unemployment during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s.

The continued unemployment problem of the late 1980s developed yet another impetus for the youth of Uruguay to seek employment and new lives in other countries.

[5] Most Uruguayans find it easy to adapt to life in large cities in the United States, thanks to the cosmopolitan lifestyle they are used to in Uruguay.

Uruguayans in general have a multilingual exposure that makes English not an obstacle for adaptation in American society.

In addition, the high value that is given to higher education has led many Uruguayan students to migrate to the United States to continue their University studies there.

Although in the 1990s Uruguayans constituted 43 percent of all immigrants to the United States originating from Latin America and the Caribbean[clarification needed], they only made up a small part of the large U.S. Latino population.