Laura's Laurent

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[Do you need to speak the language fluently in order to be proud of your heritage?] I think that that’s bananas, no, I don’t think that’s - This is another thing: what happens in this country is we are the Latino community, right? Under that umbrella of Latino community, you have, underneath, 50 or so countries: Cubans, Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and we’re all different. We have different music, we have different food, we have different slang, we wear different cultural garb. We have different skin colors… So to put us in a box is unfair. Some people have come over from a different country so Spanish is their first language. Some people are born here in this country. English is their first language. My parents specifically were terrified of us having accents because they were made fun of their whole life for accents. So they wanted to assimilate us into a culture that wouldn’t, right away, put up their guard against us because of our accent. So they chose to only speak English in the house and to teach us English as our first language. I’m going to be reprimanded by a culture that I’m supposed to support and is supposed to support me because of the way I was raised? That is too limiting. That is unfair to any child, to any human being.

Every department’s losing a Leslie Knope. No, Ben, they are not. No other department has one to begin with.

When you educate a woman, you educate a nation.

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