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Hispanic advocates often tell the story of a Census Bureau worker who visits a Puerto Rican household in New York City's East Harlem neighborhood. Seeing the family's caramel complexion, the Census taker asks which race he should put down for them - white or black. To which the family answers: "Puerto Rican...
...United States. It’s a bit of news that we find both welcome and funny, considering that we came to this country in 1992. We first lived in New York City, in one of those neighborhoods in Queens where playing with the Greek and Puerto Rican kids often meant that no one had any idea what anyone else was saying...
...banks of the Charles River. One of the greatest things about Harvard, which isn’t common at all in my country, is that I found people there from all over the world. I had two neighbors from China, two from America and even one Puerto Rican! This diversity, which I think is essential to any top educational environment, is nowhere near as present in my country. We welcome around 100 foreign exchange students every semester at my college, but they don’t actually go to school with us; rather, they attend separate classes. Once the semester...
Chinchilla, as a result, has had to fend off suggestions by Solis and other political foes that she's a puppet of Arias, under whom she served as Vice President, and his social-democratic National Liberation Party, to which she belongs as well. The daughter of a former Costa Rican comptroller general, Chinchilla earned a master's degree in public policy at Georgetown University in Washington in the 1980s. But while she often wore indigenous fashions as a college student and criticized the Reagan Administration's involvement in Central America's conflicts, she is a social conservative, opposing abortion rights...
Some co-ed groups are also hitting the road. From Jan. 18-23, the Callbacks will shower Puerto Rican inns, plazas, and the San Jorge Children’s Hospital with music. If you're going to be nearby, check out the schedule on their Web site. The members are looking forward to performing a brand-new Spanish-language song, singer Kristina F. Latino ’13 said...