Word: rican
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...were familiar with two cultures in addition to their own. He was prompting us to explore the events of campus ethnic organizations. But which culture could I say was my own? The Swiss culture of my relatives, the American culture I grew up in or my grandfather's Puerto Rican heritage? I am not familiar with each of these cultures although together they comprise my ethnicity. Do I have the responsibility to learn about all three of these cultures...
...race is Caucasian, but my ethnic heritage is a mix of Puerto Rican, Swiss, German and English. Should I join a club to learn about the ones with which I am least familiar? Should I learn about cultures that are not part of my ethnicity by attending, for example, Chinese Students Association meetings? Am I culturally deficient...
Roman also discussed problems in the current political status, particularly the lack of voting rights in mainland U.S. elections and the lack of Puerto Rican representation in Congress...
Juan Flores, who will be a visiting professor at Harvard in the spring, told an anecdote about a place he visited in Puerto Rico populated by Puerto Rican-Americans who had returned to Puerto Rico. The people there spoke English better than Spanish, he said. They "went home, but not quite home," he said...
...head of the Department for Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Hector Calderon, of the University of California at Los Angeles, also an eminent scholar specializing in Chicano narrative, it teaching two courses in the English Department this semester, Juan Flores, an expert in Puerto Rican identity from City University of New York, will be teaching in Romance Languages and Literatures next semester...