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Mexican anthropologist Roger Bartra sees ``a revolution in the way the Mexican views the gringo.'' In the past, he says, ``the ruling classes emphasized our acute differences with the Anglo-Saxons in order to affirm our separate identity. But now hundreds of thousands of ordinary Mexicans have built bridges to the U.S. The frontier has become but a minor inconvenience. Perhaps it is utopian, but I look forward to its disappearance.'' From south of the border, at least, Mex-America beckons...
...Helen M. Alvare, a spokesperson for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, in your February 21 article ("Anti-Abortion Activists Look to Future," news story). I find it humorous at best and pathetic at worst that she described the goal of the anti-choice movement to be to "affirm a new notion of womanhood in which fertility is not a disability." If one accepts this comment, we must then assume that the anti-choice movement is actively doing something to reduce unwanted pregnancies in this country. These efforts must involve one of the the three ways to prevent pregnancies...
...offhand way in which the authors affirm such a negative stereotype demonstrates not only a careless choice of words, but a frightening degree of belief in these debasing generalizations...
...good publicity (and some modest but real political and financial gains), Native Americans are struggling with the wages of survival. Once the only people on the North American continent, they have persevered as an ethnic minority only to face the classic minority dilemma of whether to assimilate or to affirm a separate identity -- and, if they choose the latter, they further face a raft of federal definitions that can profoundly affect their economic welfare. The result is painful tensions between individuals and between tribes. Says an Indian activist: Just the question of how much Indian blood an individual possesses...
...have been pursuing the possibility of a modified arrangement with MIT that would both affirm our policy of nondiscrimination and maintain ROTC as an option for students attending Harvard," said University spokesperson Jonathan...