Word: mexicanization
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...about a growing "digital divide" in Latin America between those with money and access to information and those with neither. To span that chasm, Latin governments are embarked on a number of initiatives that will help citizens join the wired world. Among them is a project funded by the Mexican state of Aguascalientes and the Inter-American Development Bank that placed computers in all public secondary schools in the state and wired more than half of them to the World Wide...
...loyal In the Know reader (blocking group, mom, Gwyneth, that's you), you remember how a while ago I bitched about the conspicuous absence of Indians in Hollywood movies. (Occasionally, an Indian was cast as a convenience store clerk, a cabbie, or a Mexican.) But Hollywood's running out of ideas (I dare you to count the cliches in Rules of Engagement, Gossip, and Where the Heart Is) so they decide to turn to the one culture they've marginalized the most. And now, all of a sudden, India's cool. Hooray! Bollywood is India's version of Hollywood - only...
Cinco de Mayo traditionally commemorates May 5, 1862, the day when Mexican troops, outnumbered two to one, defeated French invaders in the infamous Battle of Puebla...
...annual celebration has taken on special contemporary significance for Mexican-Americans and other Latinos...
...other Harvard group, Talento Falta ("talent is lacking"), made its world premiere last night. Talento Falta performs more contemporary and popular Mexican and Chicano dance...