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LETTERS, Page 12Latino Diversity
Your report on the difficulty the media have in building a
national following among culturally diverse Hispanics (PRESS, Oct.
23) mentioned a Chicano protest against the "Cubanization" of a
Spanish-language TV station. That strikes me as absurd. As a Cuban
American born and raised in Los Angeles, I have enjoyed and
appreciated Mexican-American music, dance, art and folklore for
years. It is because of misdirected nationalism like this that
Latin America has never become a unified world power.
Margarita Engle
Fallbrook, Calif.
I am tired of the belief that all of us Hispanics "look alike."
We don't even sound the same if you tune your ear carefully. I was
born in Peru and originally came to the U.S. to attend college.
People automatically think I like Mexican food. I do, but the first
time I ever had a taco was after I arrived in the U.S.
Maria Torres Reidpath
Morgantown, W. Va.