Word: hispanicization
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I admit that as a freshman, I wondered at divided nature of Harvard's Hispanic community, and the mysteriously absent "umbrella" organization. It has taken me almost two years to realize that such an organization is not only unrealistic and impracticable, but also undesirable. As a Hispanic, I have come...
North American of Latin American ancestry, and more recent immigrants from Latin America, are grouped as "Hispanic only because there is wide-spread ignorance among Anglos of the cultural and political differences among us, which are often more significant than the similarities. Apart from loose cultural connections like language and...
Sadly, this bigotry produced of pride does exist in almost every nationally varied Hispanic group. And, in fact, it is only since I have been at Harvard, where I have been exposed to such a varied group of Latinos, that I have experienced that type of strong discrimination.
"The professors that teach Latin-American courses are some of the best in the world," said Edmundo Gonzales '95, former president of the Forum on Hispanic Affairs. "I'm quite satisfied."
It is absolutely unconscionable that not one Hispanic, African-American or Asian is a parent of mine. In fact, not just one, but both of my parents are white and Jewish. Thank goodness I'm at least treated to some gender diversity--even parity. Ah, how my mother must have...