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...grouped as "Hispanic only because there is wide-spread ignorance among Anglos of the cultural and political differences among us, which are often more significant than the similarities. Apart from loose cultural connections like language and, to a much lesser degree, religion, there is little binding the Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban communities in this country. We are much different racially (the ethnic composition of Cuba, for example, which is principally African and European, is vastly different from that of Mexico, which is mainly Native Indian and European), and even the way we view our experiences in this country...
...Cuban migration, for instance, is distinct from the Mexican and Puerto Rican migrations because it stems primarily from political rather than economic causes. Since the majority of Cubans who came to this country in the 1960's and 1970's were members of the middle-class in their own country, they were often better educated than Puerto Ricans or Mexicans, who were generally from the lower-middle or lower classes, and who had arrived in the U.S. seeking better economic conditions...
Moreover, because the Cuban immigration was largely white, Cubans were less likely to encounter racial barriers and more likely to assimilate with American society. The Cuban community is politically far to the right of the Puerto Rican and Chicano communities not only because of its relative wealth (still below that of the average Anglo-American), but because of the traumatic reaction brought on by the Revolution and exile...
...example, for some time now there has been strife between the Puerto Rican and the Dominican cultures in the United States. The conflicts arose for many reasons, some of which had to do with Puerto Rico's ongoing struggle with nationalism. But both cultures were so adamant about distinguishing themselves from each other that they paid no attention to their many similarities. This same thing is beginning to happen at Harvard...
...congratulating our exemplary Afro-Am department, I hope I haven't understand the concerns of many students. Namely, there are zero Mexican-American or Puerto Rican-American senior faculty (a critical distinction to make here, as well as for Asian-American tenured professors, is that between ethnic American scholars and elite foreign scholars), zero Native American senior faculty and a gaping hole in our curriculum with regard to permanent ethnic studies courses...