Your annoyingly rich neighbors arrived home from Mexico the other day. Tanned and relaxed, they talked endlessly about their trip. They “discovered” the best restaurants and bakeries. They saw the most “charming” shops. They have a “new appreciation” for ranchero music. Have you heard of Chavella Vargas?
“You have to go,” they say. “You absolutely have to go.”
Que entretenido Rush Limbo:
Hispanics, he said, “have shown a remarkable ability to cross borders” and “will do things other people won’t do.” Asians are “the best at espionage, keeping secrets.” Blacks “lack buoyancy” and are “more likely to drown,” while the white man’s burden will weigh down the last team with “guilt over the fact that they run things.”
José Zapata llegó a Nueva York hace 17 años, cuando era un niño de dos. Su papá, Lorenzo Zapata, envió por su familia después de emigrar a esta ciudad y encontrar chamba en una lavandería en Manhattan. Acaba de terminar sus estudios de preparatoria y desea estudiar en la universidad. El y su familia viven en Brooklyn, pero a veces regresan a visitar a la familia en Anenecuilco, Morelos, durante los veranos, aunque a José también le gusta escaparse a Acapulco y otras playas. De su tatarabuelo, el general Emiliano Zapata, dijo: “fueron mis maestros estadunidenses quienes empezaron a preguntarme si no sabía quién era mi tatarabuelo, y me pusieron a leer, y así fue como aprendí más sobre él. Yo no sabía nada de él, pero ahora me siento orgulloso de que fuera un líder de la Revolución”. (Foto: Elizabeth Coll)
Parece que a esta iglesia se le olvidó que Jim Jones era de aquí mismo de Indiana!
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To me, growing up, an immigrant was some kid who spoke Spanish orRussian - just not American, but there are subcultures here I nevereven heard of until I moved here. There are Bukharan Jews fromUzbekistan, Kurds, Haka-Chinese who’ve lived in India for ages,Chino-Cubans, Fukwanese, Indo-Guyanese, Istrians (making some of thebest italian food I’ve ever had) and Coptic Egyptians. Whereas earlierin NYC we would have seen the holy trinity of immigrants - RussianJews, Italians and Irish. They’re all still here, but in lesseramounts. The Jews in Queens are mainly Orthodox, the Italians havemostly moved to the suburbs, and the Irish are staying home where theeconomy is just smashing.
Opening Arguments: Diversity 101
Did you know? Almost half of illegal immigrants enter the U.S. legally.Much of the national debate has focused on illegal immigrants sneaking across the Mexican border. But about 45 percent come here legally as tourists, students, shoppers and businesspeople, according to a report this year by the Pew Hispanic Center.
KRT Wire | 08/14/2006 | Most illegal immigrants enter U.S. through lawful means
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During the Great Depression, Mexican residents and even US-born citizens of Mexican origin were massively deported to make room for unemployed non-Latino citizens. Yet temporary labor migration from Mexico, in the form of the Bracero Program (1942 to 1964), was promoted once again after the outbreak of World War II. Internal migrations of African-Americans, whites from the rural South, and Puerto Ricans to the industrial regions were stimulated on economic grounds as well.
ILW.COM - immigration news: Rethinking The Last 200 Years Of US Immigration Policy
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The 10 snakes, “at least seven or eight howling coyotes,” five scorpions and two U.S. Border Patrol agents that he passed while walking through the Sonora Desert didn’t scare Jose, 27. It was the thought of never seeing his unborn daughter or fiancee in Indiana that left him writhing on a 117-degree day.
The Norman Transcript - Inside Immigration, Part 1: La Frontera
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ life is a case study of the ever-changing relationship between Hispanics and both major political parties.
Mientras Indiana tiene una sobreproducción de maíz (así como el resto de EE.UU.), Extraer ethanol de maíz no es tan fácil. Los expertos consideran que se gastaría mas energía produciendo el ethanol para los carros que el beneficio total de la gasolina. Además, no hay suficiente maíz en Norte América para mantenerle el apetito por la gasolina que tenemos en este país. Ahora, si Wal-mart le comprara ethanol a Brasil, el cual lo extrae el combustible mucho mas eficiente de la azúcar, entonces si podría haber un futuro en este combustible.
While Indiana has a surplus of corn (as in the rest of the country), extracting ethanol from corn is not that easy. Some experts claim it would use more energy to produce the fuel for our cars, than it total consumption of fuel. Regardless, there is not enough corn to maintain our appetite for gas in this country. Now, if Wal-mart buys ethanol from Brazil, which extracts it more efficiently from zugar, then it can really become the fuel of the future.
I’m an Irish-German Hoosier. People from Indiana think salsa only comes in one flavor - mild.
KNAU: Changing name powerful for Morales (2006-08-01)
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Bluffton joined with many larger and more racially diverse cities to promote building a more inclusive community.Only two other Indiana cities have joined the partnership to date; Indianapolis and Gary.
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Over the past 10 years, Buckholtz has given surplus equipment to soccer teams in such countries as Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Kenya, New Guinea, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago and Uganda through the International Sporting Network Limited’s Ambassadors of Sport, Southern Ohio Hispanic American Youth Soccer Association and other missionary groups.
Filmmaker Magazine | Spring 2006: BIRTHDAY GIRL
Richard Glatzer’s and Wash Westmoreland’s low-budget slice-of-L.A.-life Quinceañera — winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival — is the quintessential independent film story, both in terms of its against-all-odds approach and its confirmation of what exactly those odds are for a modest film produced in Los Angeles today.
Chicago Police gang specialist and the Midwest adviser to the International Latino Gang Investigators Association, said he is concerned about the military know-how that gang-affiliated soldiers might bring back to the streets here.
The Ferrous Fox: Some other soldiers in Iraq
A new study of academic engagement has found that underrepresented students are more likely to earn higher grades and to graduate from college if they participate in learning activities outside the classroom.
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