Word: rican
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...MORE than 22 million Hispanics live in the U.S., experts say there's precious little information on their political attitudes. Until now. The Latino National Political Survey, funded by the Ford, Rockefeller, Spencer and Tinker foundations, is the first comprehensive study of the values of Americans of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban descent and is being praised by major Hispanic groups...
Education in Costa Rica is free and has brought social mobility to society, Chavez said. Still, he said, the country's educational system is flawed. The Costa Rican education is too focused on the humanities, he said. "What we learned was isolated from society...
Overall, the number of Hispanic applicants increased by one student but the number of Mexican-American and Puerto Rican applicants declined sharply...
...often so remote that such an identification is patently absurd. Most Latinos (or Hispanics) agree that it is as ridiculous to call a Mexican or Dominican the same name given to a Spaniard as it is for Archie Bunker to characterize all people with Spanish surnames as Puerto Rican. To Archie's credit, the reality of demographics in New York at the time "All in the Family" was filmed makes his stereotype an understandable assumption...
...years, standardized test-takers have been forced to choose among Hispanic, Latino, Puerto Rican, Chicano, Cuban, South American or various combinations of similar rubrics. The U.S. Census Bureau officially used "Hispanic" as a category in 1980. If the bureau had called the group "Latinos," would it really have ramifications for the community's political status...