VivirLatino

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

Diggin' in the crates! Thanks for the reminder...made me smile!

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.