Word: guatemala
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...attended an international school in Guatemala all of my life, where identity was more about where you were from than what color your skin was. Cesar and Ron were not black; they were Dominican and Bajan-Israeli. Peter, Anabel, and Miho were not Asian; they were Korean, Taiwanese, and Japanese. I was Guatemalan, born and raised, and the fact that I was white was secondary...
Still, that didn’t prevent people from trying to categorize me. More at Harvard than anywhere else, people would explicitly ask me about my racial background. I would say that I was from Guatemala, and the person would tag me as Hispanic, even going so far to imagine a fictitious accent I don’t have. I took it as a compliment—better than being called a “gringo,” as I am in Guatemala...
...something may be changing, because 2005 has been a special test. First the tsunami hit just before New Year's-- 240,000 lives lost, $1.3 billion raised in the U.S. alone, a record for an overseas disaster. Then more tragedies piled up: flooding and mudslides killed hundreds in Guatemala, and an earthquake killed 80,000 in Pakistan. But most of all, we were reminded what disaster feels like here at home, and we raised $1.7 billion to help hurricane victims...
...teach-in, which is part of the American Rights at Work (ARW) national tour, brought activists from Guatemala, Quebec, and Mexico together with American labor organizers and Harvard workers to ask for an improvement in labor compensation at the University...
...service last week, this time as special envoy to Central America. There had been speculation that the purpose of his trip was to discuss President Reagan's plans for stepped-up support for the Nicaraguan contras. Habib insisted that his talks with the leaders of El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica were "exploratory...