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Finally, some minorities don't even have a choice about whether to join a group. Manuel S. Varela '94 was born in Spain. At Harvard, he found organizations for Mexican-Americans (RAZA) and Puerto Ricans (La Organizacion), but not for students from Spain. "To some extent I was turned off by that," Varela says, and as a consequence, he "didn't really get involved" in any Hispanic groups...
...Mario Delci, when it came time to choose a concentration, it was RAZA people who convinced him that he would be able to write an honors thesis for Social Studies. "That's where the support came from," Delci says. "Not from the University, but from RAZA...
Delci says the image of being somehow "less qualified" plagues all members of RAZA, the Mexican-American students' organization...
...that affects not only how Delci and other RAZA members carry themselves and deal with other people, but also how other students initially treat them...
...think that a lot of the other student groups--RAZA, LaO, BSA, AAA--wish that we could be more active, that we could send representatives to different groups," he says. "Our manpower is small...one or two is all you can muster...