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Old 12-21-2006, 02:16 AM
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I think SoCal tensions have alot to do with the location, political climate, and history. SoCal, the entire Southwest for that matter, has had a history with discrimination against Latinos (Mexicans specifically), you also have to look at the proximity to the U.S.-Mexican border, which raises many issues including cultural assimilation (e.g. who is Really American?), I feel students are buying into the typical identity builder of making "the others", Latinos (Mexicans specifically being this other) and are raised with that thus joining a Latin Org will definitely not attract them.

I sometimes see this, I work with kids, and no surprise the Blacks kids sit together and the Latinos sit with one another, I work in a very conservative, segregated suburb, where issues like immigration are definitely debated heavily, I could only imagine that bordertowns have this at the forefront of their minds.
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