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Drawing support partcularly from members of the Hispanic and Haitian communities, she is banking on votes from the 20 percent of Cambridge residents who live in non-English speaking households. But she will have trouble drawing votes from a demographic group that in the past has had a lower percentage registered and voting...
...closest friends while at Harvard, Professor of Romance Languages Wilga Rivers, who advised Teel on his Ph.D. dissertation, said that "he was never sitting around. He became fascinated with the learning of literate and non-literate people." For example, Rivers said, Teel studied the Haitian Creole language to better understand how illiterate Haitians learn French...
After Carillo's talk at the Harrington School, several students chatted in Spanish with an administrator while others discussed volunteering opportunities with representatives of the Portuguese and Haitian communities in Cambridge...
...million and 6 million in 1978. A National Academy of Sciences study issued last week denounced the INS statistics as "woefully inadequate" and put the total of illegals at no more than 2 million to 4 million. These include anyone from German students who deliberately overstay their visas to Haitian boat people who scramble ashore in South Florida, but roughly 60% of the illegals are Hispanics, and about two-thirds of these are Mexicans driven by poverty and unemployment across the highly porous 2,000-mile southern frontier...
...long, how complete and how painful the process of Americanization will be remains unclear. It is true that ethnic elitists have bewailed each succeeding wave of Irish or Germans or Greeks, but it is also true that the disparities among Korean merchants, Soviet Jews, Hmong tribesmen, French socialites and Haitian boat people are greater than any the U.S. or any other country has ever confronted. On the other hand, Americans are probably more tolerant of diversity than they once were. "America is much more of a pluralistic society now," says Peter Rose, professor of sociology at Smith College...