Don’t forget Rita Moreno on PBS’s The Electric Company back in the day.

Arminda Figueroa, Scholastic’s project director for “Maya & Miguel said………..”We looked at the future and saw that the country is becoming more multicultural.”…………..

I would like to add that I look to the future and I see only disrespect and destruction in the US of the perception of what is Latin America. I see the political label “Hispanic” used in the US only as a means to destroy any knowledge of the fact that Latin American Counties are different from each other. I see desperate people politically labeled the same through the use of the political label “Hispanic.” I see those politically labeled Hispanic erroneously painted with the same color, the same language (as if Brazil did not exist), the same culture, the same special-needs intellect, the same poor socio-economic status, and the same vulgar and criminal behavior. I see people like Arminda Figueroa playing into the hands of this erroneous “sameness” philosophy when in fact they know better. Finally, and most telling of all, I see that the ethnic word “Anglo” has not suffered any destruction or melding of racial and cultural identity despite England’s diverse empire. I see a strong movement in the United States to protect the integrity of original European meaning of “Anglo”, while at the same time I see a strong movement in the United States to destroy the integrity of the original European meaning of “Hispanic.” One only need look at any recently changed US dictionaries to see what I see………a Machiavellian design.