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Show I TERVIEW: Cuellar Page 13 being accepted is quite impressive because, I dare say that in two or three years if the trend continues that Chicano will be accepted by many, many more. So it's now not accepted and we can never expect that people, the older people, that are more conservative and more traditional will be in$ulted by the word Chicano, but there is also the fact that they don't understand the movement. They don't understand that it means something to the young person to be a Chicano, while the Mexican-American sort of denotes conservatism, sort of denotes too traditional ways, this type of thing. And therein you have the movement. Yes, it is a movement, it means more than a description of an individual. Am I a Chicano? Well I might be a Chicano if I'm involved with the movement; if I'm involved with making sure that we all shoot for the same goal, the betterment of all concerned. If we are sure that in some way we identify it with getting better school systems for the younger Spanish-speaking children, to change ways, which in a way, that's what the GI Forum and LULAC and other organizations have done; to make sure that the system changes for the benefit of the Spanish-speaking into the system. So that's the movement and I think as I have mentioned before, that there is a reversal that is very healthy. I think that almost everybody regardless of their idealogical differences, we talk of MECHA, and we talk of the GI Forum, we're talking · |
