Why aren Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America?
The answer is as politically incorrect as the question. Herman Badillo will tell it to you straight: Hispanics simply don’t put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant groups in America. Orphaned in Puerto Rico, raised in New York since childhood, and experienced in the political arena, he’s not afraid of the “stereotyping” charge. As the nation’s first Puerto Rican-born U.S. congressman, the trailblazing Badillo supported bilingual education and other government programs he thought would help the Hispanic community. But Badillo came to see that the real path to prosperity, political unity, and the American mainstream is self-reliance, not big government. Now Badillo’s a Giuliani-style Republican and a champion of one standard of achievement for all races and ethnicities. In this surprising and controversial manifesto, you will learn: • Why Hispanic culture’s trouble with education, democracy, and economics stems from Mother Spain and the “five-hundred year siesta” she induce
