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More important, and much more disturbing, is Choi's argument that the "many Chinatowns and barrio border towns in America...are not germinating places for Latino and Asian American cultures that are strongly felt by most Latinos and Asians in America." First, this statement reflects a narrow perception of the lives of Latinos and Asian Americans. Choi can only be describing his personal experience--even here at Harvard there are dozens of students who have grown up in and around those very Chinatowns and barrios. Simply because his personal experience is not touched by Asian American culture does not mean...
...years' experience of slavery, exploitation, segregation, ghettoization, and struggle has kept them by and large a distinct "nation within a nation." The rural South and the urban ghetto have for just about all African-Americans rich cultural and historical significance. By contrast, while there are admittedly many Chinatowns and barrio bordertowns in America, these enclaves are not germinating places for Latino and Asian American cultures that are strongly shared or felt by most Latinos and Asians in America...
Angelica D. Pizzarro '94 was born in the Philippines and came to America at the age of 10. She grew up in California, in "a barrio with a lot of Filipinos," and she was one of relatively few in her high school to go to college...
...Hispanic barrio public schools, like mine, are sometimes included on the visiting lists. But the University wants results, and results come from places that have proved successful in the past. The pool of college bound lower class Hispanics is not increasing and no one is making an active effort to increase it. Universities throughout the country do not tap this resource regularly. If they did, they may be surprised at the students they find. Some barrio kids do make it to college...
...warm night in Valencia, 300 citizens gather in the streets of Malvarrosa, a beachfront neighborhood. Passing a megaphone back and forth, they snake through the streets, shaking their fists at apartments where, they claim, heroin traffickers live. "Drug dealers out! Out! Out!" they shout. For seven years, the barrio was besieged by addicts. "Our children couldn't go to buy a loaf of bread without having their coins stolen," said Maria Jose Fuentes, who was marching with her nine-year-old son. "Old ladies were ! attacked. Prostitutes were everywhere, and addicts walked around with needles in their arms." Last September...