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Carmina Oaks
Executive Director, Latino Resource Center, Jackson, WY
I just wanted to mention something about the community where I am living at.
That people are coming actually to try to get the Latinos to integrate
into the community. We are the first generation, so we are learning everything
from step one, so we are committing a lot of mistakes, making something
that maybe we shouldn't, but we are trying as hard as we can. For example,
I worked for the Police department for four years. They have sent all
their police to training, tolerance training, and everyone in the community
is trying a little bit to help them. But even when they try to help them,
sometimes the integration is not there, because for us sometimes, we lag
behind, because people have maybe a 3rd-grade education. So to come to
these meetings, to really embrace that is very difficult. But in these
communities, it's happening. They are trying to reach and hopefully we
will see that in other communities.
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