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FINALLY, THE NWS AND FREEDOM NEWSPAPERS LISTEN TO EL RRUN-RRUN
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"<em>The Brownsville office of the National Weather Service will soon begin transmitting emergency alerts in Spanish to provide many Rio Grande Valley households the early warnings necessary to save lives."</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">JARED JANES/<em>The Monitor</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /><br />By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />Are barrio-friendly hurricane warnings needed?<br />Back in 2008, a friend sent me a Email from Houston that made fun of U.S. Rep. Shirley Jackson Lee’s complaint of the National Hurricane Center’s traditional practice of naming tropical storms and hurricanes with Anglo Saxon names and ignoring names from other ethnic backgrounds. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp8FMK2suT-JnR57JusP6y5M6IzTMUSLIzjbhrqIgP1qZc9Cmpxnw9ed9AW2XsgkWXzpG_6ef_hAQ_DZoNr8u7VfD68b2dhxVnSDzpfX2N2ML4A7bjJaOeB6vxM08eUO6hvdaaLBbBo4Y/s1600/abarrio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" sca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp8FMK2suT-JnR57JusP6y5M6IzTMUSLIzjbhrqIgP1qZc9Cmpxnw9ed9AW2XsgkWXzpG_6ef_hAQ_DZoNr8u7VfD68b2dhxVnSDzpfX2N2ML4A7bjJaOeB6vxM08eUO6hvdaaLBbBo4Y/s320/abarrio.jpg" width="320" /></a>We suggested something of the sort that the National Weather Service is putting into effect this year as the hurricane season approache in June of 2010, but apprently it took a while for the thought to register with the federal bureaucracy.<br />Now, I don’t know whether Rep. Jackson's criticism will be taken to heart by the folks at the storm center, but it would be an interesting change of pace to hear the weather forecasters talk about Hurricane Shaquille, DeJuan, or Takeisha.<br />It would be just as refreshing to hear them warn us of the projected path of Hurricane Panfilo, Lupita, or Juanito. <br />The missive my friend sent me went on to list other criticisms that Rep. Jackson made concerning the wording of the hurricane warnings. She stated that perhaps the conservative (and bland) language that was used in the broadcasts did not convey the seriousness of the situation surrounding these massive storms. <br />Apparently, she is of the opinion that the current warnings do not convey the sense of urgency, or perhaps, passion, that would make the average black listener or viewer take the precautions they need to keep themselves and their families safe. <br />Mulling over this, I applied the same logic to Hispanic listeners and wondered how we might be able to make the hurricane warnings more, how shall I say, barrio friendly. <br />For starters, we would have to use some Spanish, Tex-Mex, or even some slang in the messages to get the message to reach a majority of the people. There are already plenty of sayings (<em>dichos</em>) associated with the weather in South Texas. <br />These “<em>dichos</em>†are a rich source of folk wisdom that convey a serious message to the listener. For example, <em>“Cuando viene tempestad del sureste, suelta las bestias y vete</em>,†means that when a storm approaches from the southeast, let the livestock loose, and make tracks. <br />And many rural South Texans are acquainted with sudden swarms of ants that come out just before a bad storm. Likewise, when one saw spiders or other insects climbing the trees, it was a sign that a storm was brewing. Realizing that we have rich and creative diversity of expression in South Texas, we might have to warn our listeners that bad storms are on the way in a way that they would understand.<br />The average Southmost adult could understand something like, <em>“Hay viene la agua. Paña a grannma y los guercos, agarra tus tiliches y patitas pa que son.â€</em> A rough translation of this would be something like “A bad storm’s coming. Gather up granny and the kids, a few things, and feets don’t fail me now.â€<br />Or, if you happen to be addressing the younger, hipper, crowd, one could go with, <em>“Hey, homey, hay viene un storm bien bule. Apaña un ropin y la Baby Doll, y ponle en la carrucha, Bro.†</em>Since recent federal policies by the Department of Homeland Security have singled out the border area for a crackdown on illegal immigration, that adds an extra wrinkle to the mix here. Past stories in the local daily indicates that some community activist groups have sued to have the Border Patrol disclose the extent of their immigration checks if an evacuation would be ordered. <br />We all know that South Texas is a corridor through which illegal migration occurs. And most of us know someone who has relatives here without proper documentations. Since these people would also be included in the evacuations, perhaps our warning should also be aimed at informing them of the potential for arrest and deportation if they get stopped by the Border Patrol.<br />Perhaps a message such as this may be broadcast to warn this segment of the population: “Gov. Perry has ordered the evacuation of Brownsville and urges all residents to use the evacuation routes leading north and west of the Rio Grande Valley. People unable to produce at least two forms of acceptable identification should be aware that they face possible arrest, deportation, and separation from their children if they are U.S. citizens. If this is the case, please make arrangements for the care of your children should you be arrested as you try to evacuate the area.â€<br />You can see how providing this information to potential evacuees is of critical importance. For example, if you are transporting someone who cannot prove he or she is a citizen, this subjects the owner of the vehicle to forfeiture and arrest for harboring an illegal entrant. Suddenly, amidst the mass evacuation from South Texas, your kids will be left without transportation and on their own. <br />Is it any wonder that in case a major storm were to hit the area, a large number of people would chose to weather the storm rather than be arrested and have their car confiscated because they were carrying la tia who doesn’t have any papers?<br /><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAjy52ox5C0HAWkc9F0Ux6vV3aXzuOM4lHp2vg2Gc4jH5GRbo0WNMmtaUYempNNW1F8zs9AW5e0JFpC5zs8LL_TsI0_NbUhgpELMxjzbe2zK8AJxWKjuG3nDZJF9DKkL6MA90c59f2ymc/s1600/alow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" sca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAjy52ox5C0HAWkc9F0Ux6vV3aXzuOM4lHp2vg2Gc4jH5GRbo0WNMmtaUYempNNW1F8zs9AW5e0JFpC5zs8LL_TsI0_NbUhgpELMxjzbe2zK8AJxWKjuG3nDZJF9DKkL6MA90c59f2ymc/s400/alow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Aa barrio-friendly warning could go something like this: <em>“El gobernador Perry dice que hay viene un chubasco muy feo, gente. Dice que salgan de sus casas y se suban al mueble y se vayan para Laredo, San Antonio, o a otros pueblos lejos de la costa. Pero aguas la migra porque si no tienes papeles te van a pescar y deportar. Y si llevas a alguien en tu carro que no tenga papeles de repente te lo quitan, te suben al Suburban y te arrestan.†</em>Our homeboy message might sound something like this: <em>“El Gov. Perry dice que hay viene un chubasco con mad--. Quiere el bato que le pongan pa’ San Anto, Laredo, o pa’ otras cities lejos de l’agua. Pero wachate con la migra porque van a andar bien perros pidiendo papers, Bro. Si eres mojarra te van a pescar y tirar pa’ l’otro lado. Y si llevas un homey sin papiruchos de repente te quitan la ranfla y te meten al taris a ti tambien por llevarlo. Aguas porque se te cai el canton.â€</em>There is also, believe it or not, a public health consideration to this message as well. Taking into account that high blood pressure and diabetes plagues the health of Hispanics in higher proportions than other groups, Perry’s message might include advice to take along their medication. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The accompanying Spanish message might include an addendum such as: “Y no se les olviden las pildoras pa’ la presión y pa’ la azucar.†</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">There is a sense of urgency about this now since are well underway into the hurricane season. Will our elected officials and disaster-preparedness administrators get the message and incorporate some of the ideas that Rep. Jackson is advocating to warn blacks and other minorities to the gravity of the situation? </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">If not, then we’re sure some local residents might not heed the warnings of our emergency preparedness because they’re not “barrio friendly.†There is yet another <em>dicho </em>that might come into play here. That is the one that says: <em>“Todavia ves que viene la tormenta y no te hincas y te arrepientes</em>.†(Even after you see the approaching tempest, you still don’t kneel and repent).</div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7468706038761590367?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/07/finally-nws-and-freedom-newspapers.html
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AND THEY BELITTLED BEGUM FOR HAVING AN ACCENT?
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />Despite the fact that Erin Hernandez Garcia and her camp of followers backed off the xenophobic criticisms of her opponent Yolanda Begum for having a Spanish accent (who doesn't?) their mantra of belittling her for the fact that she doesn't have a law degree continues.<br />Regardless of the fact that it has been pointed out elsewhere that out of 9 Justice of the Peace positions in the county eight are filled by non-lawyers, this, apparently, is the slim hook that Erin and her daddy Cameron County Pct. 2 Commissioner Ernie Hernandez are counting on to help her overcome her 500-vote deficit in the July 31 runoff election against businesswoman and community activist Begum.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">However, as the countoff to the election approaches (early voting starts July 23), we have taken a closer look (and listen) to the Erin Hernandez pitch and were appalled at her total lack of skills and langugae presentation when she tries to speak in Spanish to potential voters.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Erin starts off endearing herself to the listeners talking about her native roots, her eight-year marriage, her attending law school, etc., and promises them that she will "bounce around in English and Spanish" in her presentation. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2g22lV_eC4JqUCkQ3nrjaGlQYJ_3BWTAxp36hFICR6iQoou0OjVDvrbUJ56G3IvmL113ryQXf1J_kH_oBoFzZ5hV7vk6EXrczFUcYDYhMZJwFAKmjAzf8W7QLPmvc1I4cSYTwob4Jvbo/s1600/erin" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" sca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2g22lV_eC4JqUCkQ3nrjaGlQYJ_3BWTAxp36hFICR6iQoou0OjVDvrbUJ56G3IvmL113ryQXf1J_kH_oBoFzZ5hV7vk6EXrczFUcYDYhMZJwFAKmjAzf8W7QLPmvc1I4cSYTwob4Jvbo/s320/erin" width="320" /></a>Well, bounce around she does, albeit embrarassing herself before her listeners and thoroughly mangling her articles and nouns in the process. It makes one wonder whether she ever took Spanish classes in school or has ever lived among local speakers.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">As she gears up the rhetoric about where we are headed as a community and a state and needing to raise the bar, she says "we need to elect people to positions that they are qualified for."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">She is, of course, referring to her law degree and her claim that it takes a lawyer to fill the position because, "anyway you look at it a Justice of the Peace court is a courtroom and it is s problem. It is a place where people come...<em>al</em> corte, cuando tienen...<em>una</em> problema legal."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"<em>No es necesario ser abogado pare esa posicion porque el estado no lo necesita</em>," she struggles on. <em>"El razon es que..." </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">A charitable translation of what Erin is apparently trying to say is that she while she considers her opponent unqualified for JP, she acknowledges that the State of Texas does not require candidates or JPs to possess a law degree. But she lays out her rationale in terms of if your car breaks down you take it to a mechanic, if your child gets sick to seek a pediatrist, if your pet is ill you take it to a vet, etc."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Actually, a longtime Houston JP disagrees with Erin and her supporters. Quoted in a local blog, she said that:</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"Being a lawyer actually is a hindrance. It creates a conflict of interest. Let's say a woman comes into your court as a victim of domestic abuse. You might say privately, as a lawyer, 'I can help you.' But as a JP we're not allowed to give legal advice. We offer rulings, settle disputes, but we don't give legal advice. Maybe fatherly or motherly advice, from our life experience, but not legal advice. About the only place being a lawyer might help would be in evicting people from their homes, but those rules are not difficult to learn."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">That message would probably be lost on the Hernandez crowd, but what was not lost on the Spanish listeners who heard Erin make her pitch in their predominant language were phrases like: "Si la persona presentan a <em>su</em> <em>causo</em>....solucionar <em>la problema</em>...<em>el posicion</em>...<em>los calificaciones</em>..., ad nauseum..." </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We had mentioned before that out of nine JPs in the county, eight are non-lawyers. Bennie Ochoa, Linda Salazar, Julian Sanchez, David Garza, Manuel Flores, Sally Gonzalez, Juan Mendoza, and Adam Gonzalez â€" all sitting JPs â€" are not lawyers. And, unlike Erin, they all speak intelligible Spanish to serve their predominantly Spanish-speaking populations.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Would Erin and her supporters tell them that they are not qualified and that voters need to "raise the bar" and be replaced with lawyers? </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">On the other hand, former 404th District Court Judge Abel Limas (convicted), Jim Solis (convicted), Ray Marchan (convicted), Joe Valle (convicted) DA Armando Villalobos (indicted), Mark Rosenthal (indicted), are lawyers. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This is not even taking into consideration all those lawyers who were implicated with Limas in his corruption case (State Rep. Rene Oliveira, Charles Willette, Michael Young, Joe De la Fuente, former Brownsville Mayor Eddie Treviño, etc.). </div>So does simply having a law degree insure us that they raised the bar to the heights that Erin and her supporters would have the voters of JP 2-2 district do?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-2958712222506449027?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/07/and-they-criticized-begum-for-having.html
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ORIGIN OF TEXAS HISPANICS MORE COMPLEX THAN SOME THINK
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By <strong>Richard G. Santos</strong> <br /><em>Zavala County Sentinel </em><br />richardgsantos@yahoo.com <br /><br />Historically, political refugees and exiles are forced or voluntarily leave their homeland as a result of a revolution, or overthrow of the government with which they were associated. <br />Such was the case with numerous individuals and families of northeast Mexico with the fall and execution of Mexican Emperor Maximilian (1867), execution of Nuevo Leon-Tamaulipas and Coahuila Governor Santiago Vidaurri (1867), death of Benito Juarez (1872) and rise of Porfirio Diaz (1876).<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Always thinking they would return to Mexico, the refugees and exiles settled in the townships, ranchos and farms along the Rio Grande with few venturing no more than fifty miles from the Texas-Mexican border. Their presence can be dated by the number of Mexican Masonic Lodges, Mutualista organizations and membership in socio-civic organizations including the Woodmen of the World chapters.<br />The building of rail lines from San Antonio and Corpus Christi to the Texasâ€"Mexico border communities (1881-1883) energized the geographic area between the San Antonio River and Rio Grande as land owners now used the railways to move their horses, cattle, sheep, goats and agricultural products from the Winter Garden and South Texas to markets beyond San Antonio and Corpus Christi. Railroad work camps became loading sites which in turn became townships. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg60xtcBWBYalUhTmQTD4Hpcfz4Xq0PZ-SoptwTEqgdWCQLR9HsxVmNwXcOEEUSpKc_UwDY-_xVWpQ5bMiI_l2SWVIapFyax1RwjVJJ6iNJjuVI5BhzP6GzrI4meKNzpJCGvYw5BkINI0A/s1600/braceros.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" sca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg60xtcBWBYalUhTmQTD4Hpcfz4Xq0PZ-SoptwTEqgdWCQLR9HsxVmNwXcOEEUSpKc_UwDY-_xVWpQ5bMiI_l2SWVIapFyax1RwjVJJ6iNJjuVI5BhzP6GzrI4meKNzpJCGvYw5BkINI0A/s1600/braceros.jpg" /></a>At the same time, older townships and communities skipped by the railroad became ghost towns. Lack of a labor force drove the land owners to recruit individuals and families from the Texas-Mexican border area and settle them in housing on the ranchos and farms where they were employed. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Few Mexican border laborers were settled at the railway loading townships but always in the segregated “across the tracks†or “across the main road/street†barrios. In time they established their own churches, civic, religious and social organizations, schools, “mom and pop storesâ€, bakeries, fruit stands and entertainment establishments (namely cantinas and dance halls). </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Senior citizen “anglos†and “Mexican Texans†have told this writer how “in the old days grandpa would hitch the wagon and take all children at the ranch or farm to school. The “anglo†kids were the first to be taken to their school and then the others to the Mexican or Black schools across the tracks. </div>The same order was kept in picking up the kids after school. First the “anglo†kids, then the Mexican kids and finally the Black kids, if any. Although segregated at school, churches, cemeteries, movie theatres and such, at the ranch or farm all kids played together and got along fine.â€<br />The Mexican Revolution of 1910 through 1929 saw an exodus of political refugees, exiles; anti-war people and members of defeated factions mass migrate to Texas and the United States. <br />The rebels in exile (Madero, Flores Magon, Reyes etc) who had been in Texas since 1904, were replaced by the followers of Porfirio Diaz when he abdicated in 1911 and thereafter by the followers or politically-militarily active members of the various governments between 1911 and 1929 including the devote Catholics forced to leave during the 1926 â€" 1929 Cristero Uprising. <br />The college educated, wealthy professionals gravitated to San Antonio and beyond away from the violence along the border. Many veterans, conscripts and Mexican labor class settled in the smaller communities in the Winter Garden area and South Texas. <br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">A great number became migrant farm workers and more so during both World War I and World War II. The Corrido de Kansas of the 1920’s states <em>“ya me voy pa’ pensilvania por no piscar algodon</em> (I am going to Pennsylvania in order not to pick cotton). The ballad then related the trip by train, what they saw between “Forowes†(Fort Worth) and how they were greeted when they arrived at their destination. Many individuals and families stayed in the Midwestern states and communities where they can still be found today.<br />Far out numbering the Spanish Colonial Tejanos, it was and has been the Mexican families of the Revolution of 1910 that gave cohesiveness to the Hispanic Mexican American population of the United States and Texas. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh4ATTvGzGDu4Jv1x8nDHQ_sflZMXvRiK8pfD-YYoVAGjvEeYsDgcWgoTjXtzJxkY45JYdlcqySxz-sp_T9rc0-GKShzAM8FmdNumv4Wyn_6JBgFdGbLjtVaXTXbHZ0hGDwwohFxZzNq0/s1600/aescuelas1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" sca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh4ATTvGzGDu4Jv1x8nDHQ_sflZMXvRiK8pfD-YYoVAGjvEeYsDgcWgoTjXtzJxkY45JYdlcqySxz-sp_T9rc0-GKShzAM8FmdNumv4Wyn_6JBgFdGbLjtVaXTXbHZ0hGDwwohFxZzNq0/s320/aescuelas1.jpg" width="320" /></a>They introduced the mariachi, quinceanera, Cinco de Mayo, Diezyseis de Septiembre, pinata, Our Lady of Guadalupe and initiated in 1911 the effort to establish English-Spanish Bilingual Education and the “Mexican culture†in the Texas public schools (Congreso Mexicanista; Laredo, Texas). </div>While waiting, they established the escuelitas (neighborhood school) also known as “the school of 400†(where pre-school and elementary aged children were taught the most basic 400 words of English they needed when attending school). Hundreds of photographs can still be found of the students of las escuelitas as well as socio-civic-religious organizations performing Christmas programs or celebrating the Fourth of July as well as Cinco de Mayo and the Diezyseis. <br />Today it is the grandchildren and great grandchildren of the refugees and exiles of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 that make up the vast majority of the Mexican Americans, Mexican Tejanos, Hispanics and Chicanos. They far outnumber the Spanish Colonial Tejanos. <br />Both groups, however, are fully fledged U.S. citizens, U.. S. English dominant, and most have never travel into Mexico beyond the border area. They are not to be confused with the individuals and families who have migrated to the U.S. since the Korean War and more so within the last twenty years.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsX4-tZWi-VE0dsU2UfqLS0RGgyCWFB5Y9jBKjA6tcXH877oA2KjY6Bc49XarMvph2wfmvhkfNYXmG9jvWnsL0IP6qaa11_E60ZYZBbM34iBUvjen6ZSey780NyetTrEgJWZXPQtS4I_o/s1600/AMEX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" sca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsX4-tZWi-VE0dsU2UfqLS0RGgyCWFB5Y9jBKjA6tcXH877oA2KjY6Bc49XarMvph2wfmvhkfNYXmG9jvWnsL0IP6qaa11_E60ZYZBbM34iBUvjen6ZSey780NyetTrEgJWZXPQtS4I_o/s320/AMEX.jpg" width="320" /></a>In closing it should be stressed that as a rule in South Texas the term “Latino†is primarily used by Tejanos and Mexican Americans for Hispanics with a country of origin other than Mexico. </div>As stated at the beginning of this series, once you understand the diversity and complexity of the ethnic group you begin to realize why we cannot agree on what to call the group and that there is not one thing all have in common. Members of the group come in all shapes, sizes and color of skin, eyes, hair type and anything else you may wish to cite. Incidentally, it is not true that all Spaniards are light skinned, have blue eyes and all Spanish women have a mustache and are as wide as they are tall.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3976811589532703247?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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