The New Latin American Sensibility
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 05.19.06 | 1:30 PM ET
The ever provocative Richard Rodriguez wrote an eloquent essay in today’s Los Angeles Times about all the immigration fuss these days, and about the changing character of the United States. Among the highlights: “A new Latin American sensibility is being born - here, in the U.S.! One of the things I’ve seen in the huge pro-immigrant demonstrations is not simply families walking together—the son walking with the father, the mother with her babies—but also Colombians walking alongside Mexicans, walking alongside Dominicans, walking alongside Guatemalans. These people are no longer members of their ethnic or national groups; they’re marching as some new nation of the ‘Hispanic’ world. That is quite revolutionary.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Mollie Foti 05.19.06 | 2:55 PM ET
Living in Hawaii, I’m probably more aware than many on the mainland of how we all started out as immigrants. It’s a shame that the very real issues (and opportunities) relating to immigration are getting buried in D.C. political shouting matches.
Jim 05.19.06 | 3:20 PM ET
Great point, Mollie. I agree. This is a great opportunity for the nation to arrive at a sound immigration policy. But shouting isn’t going to get us there.