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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (13490)5/28/2002 4:22:11 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
Well, I'm glad I didn't expend any energy on that rant. I come back from shopping to find that you've done a lovely rant for me. Cool.

(those of African and non-Cuban Hispanic ancestry

I recall having a discussion on Cuban students with a friend of mine from the NJ Education Dept. and some of his colleagues. There was a school with a predominantly Cuban population somewhere near New York that had won an achievement award for the umpteenth time and the group was talking about why this minority school would perform so well. Turns out that the Cubans who settled in that area were from the first wave which was the wealthy and middle class of Cuba as opposed to some of the more recent Cuban refugees who were peasants and urban poor or the Mexican campesinos. The difference according to these experts was simply the class of the immigrant. Kids from the business classes had the culture to succeed.

In recent years, I've taught English as a second language to immigrants. I was surprised at how many of my students weren't literate in their home language. I could help those who knew Spanish or Korean grammar. I was at a loss with the illiterates. My grandparents were peasants when they came here, but they were literate. I can barely get my head around what it must be to be illiterate and how many generations it takes to recover from that.
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