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...Miami is very, very important for us. We don't feel like immigrants." Padilla certainly does not. Cuba's best and most famous poet now talks as if he could be the proud father of all his 726,000 countrymen residing in South Florida. "The U.S. is the seventh-largest Spanish-speaking nation in terms of population," he says, "and I think that will enrich the country. The present and the future of the U.S. are here...
Some analysts think that Hispanic Americans by the year 2000 will total 30 million to 35 million, or 11% to 12% of all U.S. residents, vs. 6.4% in 1980. If so, they would constitute the largest American minority, outnumbering blacks and, indeed, people of English, Irish, German, Italian or any other single ethnic background...
Although Hispanics constitute by far the largest audience for ethnic programming, a growing number of stations are offering polyglot schedules that amount to a microcosm of the U.S. melting pot. KSCI-TV in Los Angeles begins its day at 4 a.m. with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, followed by half an hour of Korean news, an Islamic educational program, a Farsi version of the Today show and, around lunchtime, a costume drama called Chinese World. WCIU-TV, Channel 26 in Chicago, carries some 60 hours a week of foreign-language programming, ranging from Club del Nino, a Hispanic children's series...
Familiarity, it seems, breeds tolerance. "The Mexican American in Nogales, Ariz., is not reticent to say he's Mexican," says Paul Bracker, a local businessman. "There is a healthy attitude here toward heritage." Says Robert Stuchen, vice president of the Capin Mercantile Corp., one of Arizona's largest employers: "My kids are not aware of prejudices here in Nogales. We're probably more Mexicanized than the Mexicans are Americanized." Merchant Fred Knechel, president of the Chamber of Commerce in Calexico, Calif., across the line from Mexicali, contends that there are "class prejudices but not racial prejudices on the border...
...fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers . . ." It was in memory of Kennedy's urging that the U.S. in 1965 abandoned the quota system that for nearly half a century had preserved the overwhelmingly European character of the nation. The new law invited the largest wave of immigration since the turn of the century, only this time the newcomers have arrived not from the Old World but from the Third World, especially Asia and Latin America. Of the 544,000 legal immigrants who came in fiscal 1984, the largest numbers were from Mexico...