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Show I TERVIEW: Cuellar Page 9 fragmented they tend to form organizations all over the place a~d they never seem to unify; and they fight each other all the time; they're very jealous of each other. This type of thing. Those were their conclusions and they sort of stereotype the ~xican-American. It's a very sad thing because if you look at the Anglo society, if you look at any society, whatsoever, how many organizations are there? You have Church organizations, social organizations, the Boyscouts, the Girlscouts, the Brownies, on and on down the line, so that doesn't apply. Maybe it's more visible to the Mexican-American because of the smallness of the group, but it's a stereotype that is absolutely not valid. Not only that but it's, where it's a detriment in organizing, I think, the more organization regardless of the number there are, . the better. Now, is it one brown group against another brown group? To a large extent, yes I think that you're going to find that to be a normal thing anywhere, anytime, with.any group. You're going to find that the American Education Association will always have some issues to deal with, if they're dealing with the American Vocational Association. The local Chamber of Commerce is going to have something to say about the local group dealing with environment for whatever. So you're going to find a little issue between each other. If you have one group; locally, of the American GI Forum, and you do have one group of LULAC, you're going to find |
