Purchase
An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups
Sentinel
January 2007
On Sale: December 28, 2006
240 pages
ISBN: 159523019X
EAN: 9781595230195
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Political
Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other
immigrant groups in America? Herman Badillo's answer is as
politically incorrect as the question: Hispanics simply
don’t put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant
groups. As the nation’s first Puerto Rican–born U.S. congressman,
the trailblazing Badillo once supported bilingual education
and other government programs he thought would help the
Hispanic community. But he came to see that the real path to
prosperity, political unity, and the American mainstream is
self-reliance, not big government. Now Badillo is a champion
of one standard of achievement for all races and ethnicities. In this surprising and controversial manifesto, you will learn:
* Why Hispanic culture’s trouble with education, democracy,
and economics stems from Mother Spain and the "five-hundred
year siesta" she induced in Latin America.
* Why the Congressman who drafted the first Spanish-English
bilingual education legislation now believes that bilingual
education hurts students more than it helps.
* Why "social promotion" — putting minority students’
self-esteem ahead of their academic performance and then
admitting them to college unprepared — continues to this
day, despite the system’s documented failures and injustices.
* How self-identifying as "Hispanic" or "white" or "black"
undermines achievement, and what lessons we can learn from
Latin American countries, where one’s race is irrelevant. With Central and Latin America exporting a large portion of
their poor, Hispanics are on the way to becoming a majority
in the United States... but one with all the problems of a
minority culture. Badillo’s solution to this problem relies on traditional
values: hard work, education, and achievement. His lessons
are important not only for Hispanics but for every American.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy