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There are now five major Latin American clubs recognized at Harvard: LaO, Raza, Latinas Unidas, the Harvard Forum on Hispanic Affairs and the newest addition, CAUSA. All are for distinct groups: Puerto Ricans, Hispanic women, Chicanos, politically involved Hispanics and Cuban-Americans...
...Latin American culture is quite different from other minority cultures in the United States. It is comprised of dozens of distinct Latin American cultures, and in many cases there are few similarities between any two of these. And so, to some extent it is understandable that each of these cultures would want to have its own group with its own leaders and its own ideas and activities, especially at Harvard...
...want to be considered so different from the other Latinos at Harvard that I have to form a club of my own to feel like I care about who I am. I don't want to separate myself from other people who speak Spanish just because there are distinct political problems happening in the various countries that represent my origin or because there is a different dialect or slang in our common language. More and more I am feeling that to join one of these clubs would be to adhere to the belief that separation means identification...
...made me realize that I have found the verification of a belief I had living in New York City surrounded by the conflicts of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. The problem that Latinos are having at Harvard and in this country is not that Latinos are united so much that distinct cultures can't be recognized and appreciated by others,. It's that the different cultures are so separated and so competitive that our goal is no longer to find a place within the American culture as much as it is to find our place within the Latin American culture. That...
...however, each defense lawyer was offering a distinct case for his client's acquittal. The government had built a case on "lies and deception," boomed Abouhalima's attorney in a closing argument that sounded more like a sermon. Ayyad's lawyer was less passionate, plodding through a four-hour summation that had the jurors nodding with fatigue. On one occasion, the judge fell into a deep sleep and had to be nudged awake by a court clerk...