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...would like to take issue with a few statements made by Manuel Cachan in his April 6 editorial "But Out of Smokers' Lives...
...errors in Cachan's reasoning, but more importantly, question his conclusion equating right to smoke to a woman's right to choose an abortion. I agree with Cachan that a person generally has the right to do whatever he wishes to his body, but I think Cachan grossly neglects the effect of smoking on others...
However it seems that Cachan is not willing to grant the same courtesy he demands for Latino students to their white peers, Several times, he uses the term "Anglo" to refer to all white Americans...
...seems that perhaps the prevalence of the word "Anglo" among Latin American students and scholarship is due to the need to find some catch all term for the many white ethnic groups that constitute the white America population. I encourage everyone to reread Cachan's editorial to understand why this is ridiculous and dangerous...
...Cachan feels (rightly so) that it is inappropriate to lump all "Latinos" together under that label, then he shouldn't use similar terms for other groups. Clare A. Sammells...