But there are also those who don’t fit both. For example: if a man was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Portuguese is his first language, he is Latino because he is from Latin America, but he is not Hispanic because he speaks Portuguese. This distinction would apply to...
In practice, however, this distinction is of little significance when referring to Spanish-speaking residents of the United States, most of whom are of Latin American origin and can thus theoretically be called by either word. · Since the 1980s Latino has come to be much more prevalent than...
Several older Hispanic people have called me kunandera (healer). Unos cuantos Hispanos mayores me han llamado kunandera (persona que cura). The number for Hispanic people is higher–more than 50 percent. El porcentaje para la población hispana es aún mayor: más del 50%. Also in France...
Edward James Olmos is an American actor, director, producer, and activist. Born on February 24, 1947, in Los Angeles, California, he grew up in a Mexican-American family that nurtured his love for the arts. He attended East Los Angeles College, where he first discovered his penchant for ...
The day-after, of course, is no laughing matter; and this morning I read in the Times that two Spanish-surnamed members of Congress from Florida voted to disregard and disenfranchise the voters of Arizona or Pennsylvania when called upon to certify those states’ electoral votes for the democra...
“The U.S. healthcare system is America’s sickness,” said Fat Joe. “Healthcare price transparency isn’t a partisan or complicated issue. It’s common sense. The only people opposed to it are healthcare industry interests profiting by keeping patients in the dark. Price transparency can ...
militaryduring the conflict, with 13 Medals of Honor awarded to Latinos. The 158th Regimental Combat Team, largely composed of Latino andNative Americansoldiers who fought in the Philippines and New Guinea, is called “the greatest fighting combat team ever deployed in battle” by Gen.Douglas ...
I could point out that the RNC featured any number of speakers makingveiled bigotedcomments. Or I could mention that oneTrump delegateproudly tweeted what the GOP later called a “racially insensitive” term (i.e., the N-word) and that this is fresh proof not only of bigotry but denial....
Born in Peru, Allende is a Chilean American writer. She began her writing career as a journalist. It wasn’t until after she fled Chile in 1975 during the Pinochet dictatorship that she began writing the fiction that she’d eventually become most known for. ...
Trump’s “promises of fixing what he called a broken country — even if it means abandoning long-held principles — wasthe whole point.” Conservatives believe it is better to let an addled lunatic do whatever he wants if it makes their fear subside, even temporarily. And Trump has gotten...