An article on Generation 1.5 Hispanics , written by Jose Villa, caught my attention during my researching, with the following sentence: Some are foreign-born and moved to the U.S. as children. Others, however, were born in the U.S. and raised in all Spanish households and neighborhoods, rendering their U.S. upbringing functionally identical to their foreign-born counterparts. They are not second generation but are not first generation in the traditional sense. They are a group functionally, culturally and linguistically in the middle. I attend a church comprised of mostly second-generation Hispanics, although our parish has a lot of 1.5 and first-generation Latinos [and non-Hispanics, too]. Over the summer, our girls’ small group read through Orlando Crespo’s, Being Latino in Christ, and I learned more about the different stories that each one of us had, as well as about the common history that we shared. I can’t say that reading that book was the beginning of my journey towards e...
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