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Why the Gaming Industry Should Care About Latinos

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In an imaginary world where video game players were only allowed play characters of their own ethnicity, Latinos would be screwed.

They could choose between Victor Gonzalez, one of the main thugs of “Los Carnales” who has survived a dozen attacks by the Vice King. Or the more sophisticated Carlos Oliveira, a mercenary from South America on the verge of a nervous breakdown during the zombie crisis on Earth.

These not particularly attractive examples are part of the average 3 percent of video game characters recognized as Latino.

September 24, 2014

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Hollywood to Latinas: Shut Up and Get Naked

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It’s no news to anyone that Latinas don’t get much diversity of roles in popular entertainment media.

On TV we have sexy domestic workers Ana Ortiz and company on Devious Maids, and sexy bimbo Sofia Vergara on Modern Family. On film, we’ve got sexy badasses Zoe Saldana in Colombiana and Michelle Rodriguez in the Machete and Resident Evil flicks. We’ve got sexy prostitutes and strippers, too, like Rosario Dawson and Jessica Alba in Sin City 1 and 2. We’ve got Eva Mendes as the sexy homewrecker on film in The Women, and Eva Longoria as the sexy wife who wrecks her own home on the Desperate Housewives of relatively recent memory.

September 20, 2014

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Special Community Release: Export Inspection Briefing

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Export Inspection Briefing: In attendance will be LA Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association who will present the update on this important matter.

September 18, 2014

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How Citizenship Changed My Life – From College to the Ballot Box

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One year after becoming U.S. citizens, many new Americans say citizenship has changed their lives for the better – from giving them a chance to go to college and get a better job, to being able to vote.

“Before I became a U.S. citizen, I felt like I was an outsider, a person without a voice who can’t really choose to live the life that I would like to see,” said Jinzhi Cang, a 73-year-old Chinese American resident of Houston who became a citizen last September.

September 18, 2014

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USCIS to Welcome More Than 27,000 New Citizens During Annual Constitution Day and Citizenship Day Celebration

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WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will welcome more than 27,000 new citizens in more than 160 naturalization ceremonies between Sept. 17 and Sept. 23 in honor of Constitution Day and Citizenship Day.

September 17, 2014

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The Polish American Film Society Celebrates 15th Annual Polish Film Festival Los Angeles

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The festival will open with SOPHIE SEEKS 7 [Facet (nie)potrzebny od zaraz] by Weronika Migon, Audience Award at Koszalin’s Debuts Film Festival “Mlodzi i Film,” on October 7, 2014 with a star-studded gala during which both Polish and American moviemakers will walk the red carpet at Hollywood’s legendary Egyptian Theatre, an extravagant start to a ten-day-long celebration of Polish Cinema through October 16, 2014 with subsequent screenings at the Laemmle’s NoHo 7 and Royal Theaters.

September 16, 2014

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Virgelia Villegas, President of Virgelia Productions Inc. On Frank Talk

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Interview with Virgelia Villegas, President of Virgelia Productions, Inc., (producer of Miss Asia USA, Mrs. Asia USA and Miss Teen Asia USA, Miss Latina Global and Miss Teen Latina Global Cultural Pageants).

A high school graduate,she survives arranged marriage at age of 15, beats billionaire Donald Trump in a lawsuit and today heads five successful cultural beauty pageants in the USA.

September 16, 2014

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Citizenship Day: Celebrating the Changing Face of American Citizenship

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Today, Citizenship Day, we recognize and honor the millions of Americans who are naturalized US citizens, immigrants who hail from all corners of the globe but who have proudly taken the oath of US citizenship.

The path to the oath is one that can be long and challenging – there are many requirements to become a naturalized US citizen – but it is also one that is within clear reach for those who receive the necessary assistance and who are able to marshall the often precious and limited resources (including time as well as money) needed to file the application and pass the interview and test.

September 16, 2014

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Q&A: What is the American Dream?

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In some way, the immigrant created the American Dream. It wasn’t a native-born idea. It began in the 19th century as immigrants — mainly Irish and German — began coming to the United States and describing their experience as transformative. They were no longer living the lives of their parents and grandparents.

September 15, 2014

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Famous Immigrants In USA

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How well do you know your immigrant celebrities?From entertainment, science, invention, politics and business, they have contributed to the beauty of this great nation, the United States of America.

September 13, 2014

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