Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that Vice President George Bush was offending Hispanics when he called his three Mexican American grandchildren the "little brown ones" is highly unlikely...
...Democrats would have a field day: "George Bush, the man who thinks his Mexican-American children are illegal aliens. Is this the type of family man you want in the White House? Vote Dukakis...
Their father regards Nintendo as a symbol of the struggle that Hispanics have with the Anglo world. "I still believe we are Mexican-American people," Abel says. "When John David and Chris and some of the other kids play the Nintendo games, it is to be competitors with the Anglo people by having what they have...
...think the idea of the American Dream has vanished from these kids' minds," says Suzie Doerr, a teacher at Bedichek. "These kids think life is fancy-free." Hermelinda Garza Perez, a second-generation Mexican American, teaches eighth-graders. "Their goal is to get by, not to get better," says Perez. As a child, she went with her mother to her job as a maid. "My mother always said to me, 'I don't want you cleaning someone else's commode...
...have you despaired of finding food that is purely, brazenly American in the polyglot melting cooking-pot of Harvard Square, home of British pizza and Mexican cheeseburgers...