Response To Uprooted Identity

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Uprooted Identity group? She responded, Latinos are not united, we don’t help each other. We envy what we have (jobs, homes, cars, clothing) I see the Filipinos and Chinese, they are more united and help each other out. I see it at work, our own people try to put us down making us inferior because they hold a better job position. Latinos are gossipers, they label people without knowing the person first. “Do you think that we are different (race) and do you think that a DNA test can prove that there are different types of races? Reyna stated that every head is a different world, everyone is different in the way they think. She adds that a DNA test cannot determine if we are different. I do think that

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