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Their father regards Nintendo as a symbol of the struggle that Hispanics have with the Anglo world. "I still believe we are Mexican-American people," Abel says. "When John David and Chris and some of the other kids play the Nintendo games, it is to be competitors with the Anglo people by having what they have...
John David has a different perspective. His parents, who grew up in southeastern Texas, were kept out of the Anglo world as children. John David has not grown up as a outsider. "The kids haven't experienced prejudice," says Mary Louise. "We experienced it from the Anglos from the day we were real little, when we couldn't go swimming in Austin's public pools. When we talk to the children about it, they say, 'Oh, Mom. That couldn't have happened. Not here...
...stylishly in a blue-striped button-down shirt, blue sweater, wide-pocket gray jeans and Nike sneakers, the sixth- grader hops up into the cab of his father's pickup truck for the ten-minute ride to Bedichek Middle School, where a majority of the 1,040 students are Anglo. After school, John David takes a city bus home...
...questionable. "I don't see Latin music ever being mainstream," says Frank Flores, general manager of the Latino station WJIT in New York City. "Our influence will seep into the mainstream, but it's still going to be Spanish music." Some Latin musicians are worried that every step toward Anglo society is a step away from their culture's roots; one player's progressivism is another's sellout. "The Latin market is our bread and butter, and we can't ignore them," says Raul Alfonso of Hansel y Raul, a straight-ahead salsa band that is trying to broaden...
Consisting of one part Hispanicized English, one part Americanized Spanish and more than a little fractured syntax, Spanglish is a bit like a Robin Williams comedy routine: a crackling line of cross-cultural patter straight from the melting pot. Often it enters Anglo homes and families through the children, who pick it up at school or at play with their young Hispanic contemporaries. In other cases, it comes from watching TV; many an Anglo child watching Sesame Street has learned uno dos tres almost as quickly as one two three...