Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To many Anglos, Hispanic insularity seems to be, to put it bluntly, un- American. This feeling not infrequently is reinforced by straightforward, ugly racism. Neil Rogers, who conducts a talk show on Miami radio station WINZ, last December broadcast a prediction of continued heavy Cuban immigration into South Florida and...
The word Hispanic, to begin with, is a catchall term embracing new immigrants and some families that have been living in what is now the Southwestern U.S. for 300 years or more. It applies to people of white, black, Indian and, frequently, thoroughly mixed ancestry who hail from countries that...
In Miami's Calle Ocho district, open-air markets sell plantains, mangoes and boniatos (sweet potatoes); old men play excitedly at dominoes in the main park. Little but Spanish is heard on the streets and indeed in many offices and shops. A Hispanic in need of a haircut, a pair...
If Anglos looked closer, they would find some of their suspicions unfounded. Though many narcotics enter the U.S. from Central and South America, addiction among Hispanic Americans, according to drug-enforcement agencies, appears to be less common than in black ghettos and indeed in many poor and middle-class Anglo...
Juan and Carmencita Rodriguez, who left Cuba in 1969, are reasonably typical. They settled in New Jersey, where Carmencita had a sister. Juan, 49, a former storekeeper, got a job in an embroidery shop by saying that he could cut lace left-handed. In fact he is right-handed and...